A HEARING date is yet to be set for a Wangaratta doctor’s consumer protection application, after he alleged Moderna and Pfizer had been operating without an appropriate licence to deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their COVID vaccines.
Dr Julian Fidge last week applied to the Federal Court to prevent the further distribution of the companies’ Comirnarty and Spikevax products, having argued they were not operating with the necessary licences from the Gene Technology Regulator (GTR).
He also posted letters of urgency to the Therapeutic Goods Administrations (TGA) and the GTR, and contended AstraZeneca had obtained the necessary licence when first releasing its own COVID vaccine.
In a brief hearing on Monday before Justice John Snaden, Dr Fidge’s application was adjourned, with a return date for a consumer protection hearing yet to be set.
A GMO is regarded as an animal, plant, or microbe whose DNA has been altered using genetic engineering techniques, a process Dr Fidge alleges occurs through the COVID vaccines’ use of nucleoside-modified messenger Ribonucleic Acid (modRNA).
