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------------------- Original Message -------------------
From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #29775 email]>; 
Received: Fri Jan 17 2025 06:05:03 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>; OIA <[email address]>; 
Subject: Official Information request - Genetic content of Comirnaty and
its half life

Dear Ministry of Health,
I note that the product Comirnaty which Medsafe approved has the following
description on its data sheet:
"The active ingredient is a single-stranded, 5’-capped messenger RNA
(mRNA) produced using a cell-free in vitro transcription from the
corresponding DNA templates, encoding the viral spike (S) protein of
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). "
[2]https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/Profs/datash...

1. Is the messenger ribonucleic acid or mRNA a genetic material?
2. What is the excretion and half-life of this active ingredient?
3. When does the messenger ribonucleic acid cease to give instructions to
DNA in the human recipient? Is it hours? Days, Months, years? 

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

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Kia ora Erika

 

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Kia ora Erika, 

 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act), received by the Ministry of Health on 13 February 2025. You
requested:

 

"Your responses have not supplied the requested info under the Act. 1. the
link says RNA "can be genetic material". The request for info is a "yes"
or "no" question. I would like to narrow down the scope of this question:
Is the mRNA in this particular product genetic material? 

 

2. When I look at the safety data sheet of other medicines, eg Panadol,
the excretion is shared and published on the safety data sheet. Kindly
share the grounds for this product information being withheld under
section 9(2)(b)(ii) , before I consider a complaint to the Ombudsman. 

 

3. This is a generic article not pertaining to this particular product.
The link with no substantial answer for this product. Again, when I look
at the safety data sheet of other medicines, eg Panadol, the excretion and
half-life is published."

 

 

The reference number for your request is H2025061333. As required under
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than 20 working days after the day your request was received:
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