Scientific Protein Laboratories

Scientific Protein Laboratories is a Waunakee, Wisconsin scientific company established in 1976 by Oscar Meyer.[1]

History

In 2004 SPL was acquired by Arsenal Capital Partners for $81 million, today.[2] The company harvests heparin from pig's intestines in Changzhou City, China and supplies the crude heparin to Baxter Travenol.[1][3] The company was involved in the 2008 Chinese heparin contamination.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Heparin's Deadly Side Effects". Time magazine. 2008. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1858870,00.html. Retrieved 2008-11-16. "A month earlier and half a world away, a team of quality-control specialists from Baxter International, the big multinational health-care company (2007 sales: $11.26 billion) based in Deerfield, Ill., arrived in Zhejiang province, China, about two hours by car from Shanghai, to inspect a facility owned by one of its key suppliers. CZ-SPL is a joint venture controlled by Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC (SPL), a Waunakee, Wis., company started in 1976 by Oscar Meyer, of hot-dog fame. (The connection: pigs naturally produce proteins used in pharmaceuticals.) CZ-SPL makes a key ingredient, what in the pharmaceutical business is called an active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, for a drug called heparin, a blood thinner that is widely used by kidney-dialysis and postsurgical patients to prevent blood clots. The team found little unusual and gave the facility a clean bill of health." 
  2. ^ "Scientific Protein Laboratories Acquired by New York firm". Wisconsin Technology Network. http://wistechnology.com/articles/570/. Retrieved 2008-11-16. 
  3. ^ "FDA Finds Contaminant in Baxter's Recalled Heparin Products". Forbes. 2008. http://www.forbes.com/health/feeds/hscout/2008/03/05/hscout613295.html. Retrieved 2008-11-16. "Scientific Protein Laboratories, of Waunakee, Wisc., and its Changzhou SPL plant in Changzhou City, China, is Baxter's main supplier of the active pharmaceutical ingredient in heparin, Woodcock said." 

External links