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Allergy Therapeutics chill worsens.

Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content, March, 2008

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TIP UPDATE: Share price in the doldrums as stand-off with FDA shows no sign of easing. Richard Hemming

Allergy Therapeutics' shares fell over 15 per cent after management said it had no idea when the US regulator's suspension of clinical trials for its grass allergies vaccine would end.

The shares have more than halved since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first called a halt to trials in July of Allergy's vaccine adjuvant, Pollinex Quattro. A patient in the trial suffered rare neurological side effects, but has since recovered. Chief executive Keith Carter says that the FDA is dragging its feet on approving all vaccine adjuvants - an adjuvant is a catalyst that helps improve the effectiveness of a vaccine.

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