New standards may help push more drugmakers to use a synthetic product for critical drug safety testing, instead of one made from horseshoe crab blood that has long drawn criticism. The U.S.

This article discusses current methods of endotoxin testing, its importance to the industry, sustainability issues relating to the process, and best practices. NOBEASTSOFIERCE - STOCK.ADOBE.COM The ...

In this episode of the Ask the Expert video series, Susan J. Schniepp, distinguished fellow at Regulatory Compliance Associates, and Siegfried Schmitt, vice president, Technical at Parexel, discuss ...

This webinar will help the attendee gain an understanding of the requirements of current USP <85> Bacterial Endotoxin Test (BET) European Pharmacopoeia (Chapter 2.6.14) and the Japanese Pharmacopoeia ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Horseshoe crabs' icy-blue blood will remain the drug industry's standard for safety tests after a powerful U.S. group ditched a plan to give equal status to a synthetic substitute ...

Hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs are used for endotoxin testing in the United States each year, bled for their blood’s ability to clot in the presence of toxins. An estimated 10 to 30 percent ...

Hundreds of thousands of the crabs are bled each year Technicians check the size of a horseshoe crab at a Lonza biotech facility in Walkersville, Maryland in an undated still image from video. REUTERS ...

Lonza has announced an expansion to its PyroTec® PRO Automated Robotic Solution for endotoxin testing. The new PyroWave® Reader add-on has been designed specifically for use with the sustainable ...

With the introduction of pioneering technology for bacterial endotoxins testing (BET), it is critical to demonstrate equivalency across platforms. The Sievers Eclipse Ratio Verification Test was ...