We do not add this antibiotic to serum during manufacturing.
Tetracycline is an antibiotic which is often used to treat
animals prior to slaughter. Although there should be sufficient
time between the last dose of antibiotic and slaughter for the
drug to metabolize, this is not always the case and the serum may
contain residual amounts of tetracycline.
Gemini tests each lot of fetal bovine serum and Fetalplex™ for
tetracycline and we report these results on the product’s
respective Certificate of Analysis.
All GemCell™ products are strictly of US origin. Gemini
Bio-Products procures its serum from USDA-approved and -inspected
slaughter houses, both inside and outside the continental United
States. Gemini Bio-Products will supply a Certificate of Origin
for any sera product upon request.
Newborn Calf Serum is derived from bovine calves that are less
than ten days old, but are more than one day old. These calves
have suckled their mothers and the serum is not colostrum-free.
Bovine Calf Serum is derived from bovine calves that are more
than ten days, but less than one year old.
Gemini’s animal sera products are collected from USDA-inspected
slaughter houses both inside and outside the United States. All
GemCell™ products are collected and processed from animals of US
origin and must meet Gemini’s stringent quality standards.
Gemini’s fetal bovine serum is sterile-filtered through three
0.1µm filters.
Gemini Bio-Products tests all serum for endotoxin, hemoglobin,
sterility, mycoplasma, virus (species-specific), and growth
promotion. We also provide a Biochemical Assay and
Electrophoretic Profile with each lot of serum. A Certificate Of
Analysis is available for each product lot.
In addition, Gemini runs a standard hormone panel for all
100-500, 100-106 and 100-602 serum lots.
