The public interest in ensuring the safety of injectable medical products, including Covid-19 vaccines, strongly favors allowing horseshoe crab harvesting in a South Carolina wildlife refuge to continue, a pharmaceutical company told a federal court in the state.
The blood of horseshoe crabs is used to ensure vaccines, drugs, and other substances are free of endotoxins, according to Charles River Laboratories International Inc. Endotoxins are a toxic protein that comes from bacteria such as E. coli.
Synthetic replacements are in development and used in limited circumstances, but no alternative meets the same standard of tests using the crab’s blood, the ...
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