By the early 1990's, the United States had about 15 million doses of aging smallpox vaccine that had been made by Wyeth Laboratories.

Wyeth Laboratories, a division of American Home Products, stopped producing the adenovirus vaccine for military recruits in 1996 after the Pentagon declined to pay for factory improvements needed to meet safety standards.

Her father is a designer at Wyeth Laboratories in Malvern, Pa.

Ms. Rice, meanwhile, wrote in Life that she worked diligently as a saleswoman for Wyeth Laboratories, although she is currently on leave.

On Oct. 18, in a column about exploitation by baby-formula manufacturers of a Federal food program for poor children and infants, I said Wyeth Laboratories was an independent company.

Nearby were several dozen boxes with sealed bottles of Dextran, made by Wyeth Laboratories in Philadelphia.

Mead-Johnson, part of Bristol-Myers, had something like a 35 percent market share, and the independent Wyeth Laboratories had most of the rest.

These included Lilly as well as Parke, Davis and Company, Cutter Laboratories, Wyeth Laboratories, and Pitman-Moore Company.

Its major competition is Triphasil from Wyeth Laboratories and Tri-Norinyl from Syntex Laboratories.

He was a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford and a lecturer in organic chemistry at Manchester University before moving to the United States in 1961 to work at Wyeth Laboratories.