• In the interview with Barry McSweeney (29 January, p 44), it was stated that a group of senior staff at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre had been fired. In fact, they had changed responsibilities as part of the reorganisation of the JRC and have significantly contributed to developing it as an important European policy support body. Our apologies for the error.
• The Liverpool vaccine plant mentioned in our news item about a glut of flu vaccine (5 February, p 14) is now run by Chiron, not GlaxoSmithKline as stated.
