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26 July 2022
Athina Andonatou
By email: [FYI request #19764 email]
Ref:
H202208414
Dear Athina
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Ministry of
Health (the Ministry) on 28 June 2022 for:
Please provide me with all the reports that have been received from Pfizer's Comirnaty
injection to either Ministry of Health or Medsafe's Chris James re: Pfizer summary
safety reports.
The documents you have requested have been withheld in full under section 9(2)(ba)(i) of the
Act, to protect information that is subject to an obligation of confidence and making it available
would likely prejudice the supply of similar information, or information from the same source. It is
in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied to Medsafe.
I have considered the countervailing public interest in release in making this decision and
consider that it does not outweigh the need to withhold at this time.
Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any decisions
made under this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Chris James
Group Manager
Medsafe