Cutter Laboratories

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Cutter Laboratories was a pharmaceutical company located in Berkeley, California.

In 1955 Cutter Labs was one of several companies licensed by the United States government to produce Salk polio vaccine. In what came to be known as the "Cutter Incident", a production error caused some lots of the Cutter vaccine to be tainted with live polio virus, causing ten deaths and hundreds of cases of paralysis in children who were inoculated.

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