Polio vaccine: The first 50 years and beyond: Summary of the meeting and next steps

A conference on “Polio vaccine: the first 50 years and beyond” was held in Toronto, Canada, June 2005. The purpose of the conference was to bring together regulators, manufacturers, academics and public health authorities to celebrate the accomplishments of the past 50 years, to consider the challenges of achieving and sustaining polio eradication and to review standardization and regulatory issues around existing and new poliovaccines. In the final session of the conference the following summary of the meeting was presented.