BRIEF-Roche working on scaling up Tamiflu production

ZURICH, April 27 (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG:

* Says working on scaling up production of tamiflu, but lead time is 8 months

* Says still has some stock available but stockpiling only way to be prepared

for pandmeics

* Says who has not yet requested deployment of 3 million doses Roche Stores for

pandemics

((Zurich Newsroom, [e-mail], [phone]))

(For more information, click on) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.