Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine List of Ingredients

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The Food and Drug Administration authorized Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine for emergency use this weekend after a panel of advisers to the agency voted unanimously (22-0) in its favor.

Dr Paul Offit — a member of the FDA’s advisory panel — told NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, the vaccine “is very effective … at preventing severe disease after a single dose and it induces the kind of response, so-called cellular immune response, that looks like it’s going to have fairly long-lived memory, which is all good.”

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In a brief submitted to the Food and Drug Administration dated February 27, 2021, Janssen Pharmaceuticals — a division of Johnson and Johnson — listed the ingredients of their COVID-19 vaccine. We provide them here for those concerned with food or drug allergies.

Ingredients in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine

Active ingredient:

  • Recombinant, replication-incompetent adenovirus type 26 expressing the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

Excipients:

  • citric acid monohydrate
  • trisodium citrate dihydrate
  • ethanol
  • 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HBCD)
  • polysorbate-80
  • sodium chloride

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