
13 February 2025
Catherine Jamieson
[FYI request #29795 email]
Tēnā koe Catherine
Your request for official information, reference: HNZ00076518
Thank you for your email of 18 January 2025, asking Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora for the
following under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act):
By batch, please provide the number of Pfizer Covid vaccine doses retrieved from
provider sites for Interwaste disposal contracts. If doses of any batch were retrieved from
provider sites for any purpose other than disposal through Interwaste disposal contracts,
please provide by batch:
i)Site retrieved from
ii)Number of doses
iii)Destination (interim and final if known)
Response
Appendix One contains the list of batches and doses wasted at provider sites. Please note that
Health New Zealand captures vial wastage in the inventory system, so this corresponds to total vial
wastage at provider sites.
Vial wastage at provider sites is disposed of via Interwaste process and, to the best of our
knowledge, there are no batches retrieved from provider sites for any purpose other than disposal
through Interwaste disposal contracts.
How to get in touch
If you have any questions, you can contact us at
[email address].
If you are not happy with this response, you have the right to make a complaint to the
Ombudsman. Information about how to do this is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
by phoning 0800 802 602.
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public, Health NZ may proactively
release a copy of this response on our website. All requester data, including your name and
contact details, will be removed prior to release.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Sara Freitag
Manager, Machinery of Government Support
National Public Health Service
TeWhatuOra.govt.nz
Health NZ, PO Box 793,
Wellington 6140, New Zealand