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Sterility test

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Peter Hosking - Living Cell Technologies

Well, one of the other tests done after encapsulation and in fact throughout the process, because it is an aseptic process and done in sterile conditions, clearly the sterility of our final product is of critical importance, so we do monitor that at various stages of the process – certainly after they’ve been harvested, 2 days after the encapsulation, also just before we transport them for a patient, we’ll take a second check.

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Published: 18 November 2011
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