diff --git a/.github/workflows/container-message-parser.yaml b/.github/workflows/container-message-parser.yaml
index 0ba1b10923..4b015a5a8e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/container-message-parser.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/container-message-parser.yaml
@@ -121,5 +121,3 @@ jobs:
           push: false
           cache-from: type=gha
           cache-to: type=gha,mode=max
-          build-args: |
-            "MESSAGE_PARSER_URL=${{secrets.MESSAGE_PARSER_URL}}"
diff --git a/containers/ingestion/app/linkage/link.py b/containers/ingestion/app/linkage/link.py
index 4b24aac293..828f369460 100644
--- a/containers/ingestion/app/linkage/link.py
+++ b/containers/ingestion/app/linkage/link.py
@@ -15,5 +15,4 @@ def generate_hash_str(linking_identifier: str, salt_str: str) -> str:
     hash_obj = hashlib.sha256()
     to_encode = (linking_identifier + salt_str).encode("utf-8")
     hash_obj.update(to_encode)
-    print()
     return hash_obj.hexdigest()
diff --git a/containers/message-parser/app/phdc/builder.py b/containers/message-parser/app/phdc/builder.py
index ae1bffbc26..42c4288f41 100644
--- a/containers/message-parser/app/phdc/builder.py
+++ b/containers/message-parser/app/phdc/builder.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ def to_element_tree(self) -> ET.ElementTree:
         :return: The PHDC XML document as an ElementTree.
         """
         if self.data is None:
+            print()
             raise ValueError("The PHDC object must be initialized.")
         return self.data