Berlin: (hib/CHE) According to the federal government, so far no evidence has been found that manufacturing-related residual amounts of DNA in Covid-19 vaccines lead to side effects or impair safety. “As part of the approval, limits were set for the content of residual DNA in mRNA vaccines. The quality of the vaccines is routinely checked,” the federal government explains in its answer (20/10229) to a small question from the AfD parliamentary group (20/10072).
In it, the federal government also refers to the homepage of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, which has published information there on the “methodology of testing Covid-19 mRNA vaccines for alleged contamination”. It points out that for the very small, fragmented residual amounts of DNA, which are plasmid DNA of bacterial origin, there are no risk aspects such as those that could arise from residual DNA from cells of animal origin. The small DNA fragments cannot code for functional proteins and are therefore considered harmless, the answer says.