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Recent article on the importance, usefulness, and accuracy of data collected by citizen scientists during horseshoe crab spawning surveys, who make surveying large stretches of coastline simultaneously on important spawning nights possible and successful.
https://blog.nature.org/science/2021/09/01/how-citizen-science-aids-horseshoe-crab-conservation/?src=s_fbo.ch_de.x.x.&sf151683531=1
Already approved for use by the European Pharmacopeia, the USP is lagging behind the rest of the world to accept rFC as an alternative testing method. The industry's adoption of rFC is inevitable. It's just a question of when. ![]()
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www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/analysis/pharma-horseshoe-crabs-threatening-species/
Pharma’s reliance on horseshoe crabs is threatening the species
www.pharmaceutical-technology.com
Conservationists say using the prehistoric horseshoe crabs' blood for bacterial endotoxin testing is no longer justifiable.