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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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