Endotoxin testing is critical in industries such as biopharmaceuticals and medical devices to ensure product safety and reliability. Endotoxins, which are lipopolysaccharides (LPS) found in ...

As thoroughly covered in your recent article (C&EN, Oct. 28, 2024, page 26), the issue of replacing the traditional natural product test for endotoxin, limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL), with a ...

Congress just gave the FDA a meaningful directive that would help replace the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical testing, strengthening the medical supply chain and patient safety, while ...

AGAWAM, Mass., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new white paper is available to assist medical device manufacturers with understanding recent changes to the U.S. Food ...

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.

The US Pharmacopeia has approved new testing guidelines for sterile pharmaceutical products. Injected and implanted products must be free from bacterial endotoxins, which can cause inflammation.

The presence of harmful bacteria in parenteral drugs or implantable devices can cause inflammatory responses such as fever and, in some cases, may even be fatal. As a result, robust bacterial ...

In this webinar, attendees will be provided an overview of the technologies that currently exist for bacterial endotoxins testing (BET), and the drawbacks associated with each. Microfluidic technology ...

RICHMOND, VA, and PITTSBURGH, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FUJIFILM Wako Chemicals U.S.A. Corporation (Fujifilm), a supplier of high purity chemicals and reagents, and Predictive Oncology Inc., ...

Every year in May when high tide coincides with the full moon, horseshoe crabs convene on the beaches of the mid-Atlantic coast to lay millions of eggs. At the same time, migratory shorebirds on their ...