Freedom of Information request on the 486 Yellow Card adverse allergic reactions to the Pfizer vaccine, how many of these individuals had a history of allergic response to PEG, and how many had a history of a nut allergy (FOI 21/1212)
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FOI 21/1212
15th November 2021
Dear,
Thank you for your email of 16th October where you have asked “As such it prompted me to ask you for some additional information, namely of the 486 Yellow Card adverse allergic reactions to the Pfizer vaccine, how many of these individuals had a history of allergic response to PEG, and how many had a history of a nut allergy”
We do apologies for the delay in acknowledging your request and responding to you your enquiry.
I can confirm that the MHRA does hold some of the information that you have requested. However, we have also determined that the information is exempt under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act and we cannot process your request any further.
Section 12 of the Act allows public authorities to refuse requests where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 24 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
In order to process your request, we would need to: retrieve and redact as appropriate the many files which have been requested. We consider that this would take longer than 24 working hours to complete.
Please note that substantially similar requests made within 60 working days of an original request can be aggregated into one for the purposes of calculating a cost limit, meaning that section 12 could still apply.
If you disagree with how we have interpreted the Freedom of Information Act 2000 with regards to your request, you can ask for the decision to be reviewed. The review would be carried out by a senior member of the Agency who was not involved with the original decision.
If you have a query about the information provided, please reply to this email
Yours sincerely
MHRA Customer Service Centre
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 4PU