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Originally Posted by jbwade
One point of clarification - Recombinant EPO is in fact genetically engineered. The products available here in the United States do in fact contain a very small amount of albumin, which is derived from proteins extracted from blood plasma and therefore are a matter of personal decision for the Jehovah's Witness population.
I believe the European EPO does not contain albumin making it a purely genetically engineered product.
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In Canada Janssen-Ortho distrubutes erythropoietin under the name 'EPREX'. They actually have 2 products listed. The citrate-buffered vial contains epoetin alpha with an albumin stabalizer (human)(0.25%). The phosphate-buffered vials use glycine and polysorbate 80 as stabalizers.