Advert - Moderna – Case AUTH/3886/3/24

• Date posted
  24 October 2024
• Sanction
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• Case number/s
  AUTH/3886/3/24 - A complaint on behalf of Children’s Covid Vaccines Advisory Council v Moderna

For failure to ensure only approved clinical trial recruitment materials were used, leading to a WhatsApp message being sent by a third party that contained an unapproved and inappropriately high financial incentive to encourage the recruitment of children, Moderna was ruled in breach of the following clauses of the 2021 Code:

Clause 2 - Bringing discredit upon, and reducing confidence in, the pharmaceutical industry
Clause 5.1 - Failing to maintain high standards