It would not survive long in the emergency stockpile.

He said the Bush administration was considering requiring the industry to keep emergency stockpiles of gasoline and other refined products to guard against supply disruptions.

Mr. Bacon said that the military had about 60,000 doses of the vaccine left, aside from an emergency stockpile.

They are prepared to send their now unneeded emergency stockpile, worth $480 million, to the Soviet Union.

Now, to help prevent shortages, the government is considering steps that include expanding the amount of flu vaccine it puts into an emergency stockpile for childhood vaccines.

In May 2006, the WHO asked Roche to be ready to ship an emergency stockpile of oseltamivir to Indonesia if needed.

Most of that money, however, will go to buy antibiotics, vaccines and other medical supplies for the nation's emergency stockpile.

Also, are the ministers now prepared, at long last, to create a European emergency stockpile?

In the initial division of labor, he said, the government is responsible for food distribution; standard emergency stockpiles will soon run out.

And the government had yet to ask Bayer to step up production, because it had yet to formally request more money to increase emergency stockpiles.