CHENGDU, Aug. 1(Xinhuanet)-- China Animal Husbandry Industry Co.Ltd. announced here that its subsidiary Chengdu medicine machinery company has produced 700,000 to 800,000 doses of vaccines as of Monday, the company sources said.

The vaccines will be used to prevent the pig-borne epidemic in southwest China's Sichuan Province, said the sources.

Chengdu medicine machinery company is the first enterprise which acquires the approval from the Ministry of Agriculture to produce the vaccine in Sichuan, said the company head Wu Yue.

All the vaccines will be produced in the workshops with the GMP(Good Manufacturing Practice) standards and will be carefully tested before going to the market, Wu said.

The company got the bacterin from the Nanjing Agricultural University on July 26.

Guan Fu, supervisor of the Ministry of Agriculture, said the vaccines which have been produced will be strictly checked by the supervisors and the process will take ten days.

The latest statistics from the Ministry of Health said the fatal pig-borne epidemic left 36 people dead in Sichuan. Enditem