BioPharm International-09-01-2002

by John Curling, ProMetic BioSciences Ltd. Immune serum globulin is in high demand, and that demand will only increase. Yet despite product shortages, the complexities involved in creating new manufacturing processes discourage change. The benefits - increased yield, reduced costs, new technologies, and faster throughput - now make identifying the best place in the processing stream to make manufacturing changes a rewrding endeavor. Planned change always trumps losing market share or being forced to change by new regulations.