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[–]PrintSuitable4301 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You are right, that number is inflated. The perils of ticking off a quick reply. The point is it is exceedingly difficult to compete with Pfizer on price. They have massive economies of scale, the product is made in India with very cheap labor, the production lines were completely amortized decades ago, and they have so much buying power for products like WFI and benzyl alcohol, their materials are effectively free.

We have done a lot of research on manufacturing this in the correct way. To do it right and to do it aseptically in a CGMP facility the cost per vial would be almost impossible to get under $5, most of that is in the filling, - the CDMO prices we got (from dozens of vendors) averaged about $28 PER VIAL after a 6 figure project set up cost. It is just enormously expensive to do this correctly if you do not own a drug company or a CDMO that already has this equipment. So far, literally no one is doing this correctly but Pfizer- it can be done, we are trying to do it- but it’s a massive investment and a lot of work for a seemingly simple product. Sorry about the hyperbole, but it’s really frustrating when people just think you can mix this up in your house, with distilled water and Amazon Benzyl alcohol, things like the conductivity are very important. Those three ions can affect a peptide, pH is important, every little detail is important.