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Quick Hits: Wildlife Activists Target Big Pharma for Using Too Much Crab Blood

Wildlife advocates want drugmakers to cease use of horseshoe crab blood in favor of a synthetic alternative.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs are netted and drained of their milky-blue blood. It’s used for medical safety tests that detect bacterial contamination in drugs and implants. According to a recent Reuters article, activists from The National Audubon Society, Defenders of Wildlife, and other groups are pressuring the pharmaceutical industry to switch to a synthetic version of the blood, known as recombinant Factor C (rFC). 

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