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Thomas R. Kreil, Ph.D.

Dr. Kreil is director of Global Pathogen Safety for Baxter BioScience and chairman of the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association (PPTA) Pathogen Steering committee.

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What if plasma donors are on medication? How are the drugs filtered out of my IVIG?

GAMMAGARD LIQUID is a highly purified intravenous immunoglobulin derived from human plasma.

Plasma is collected at FDA-registered collection centers where many precautions are taken to help ensure high-quality safety of our therapies.

First, steps are taken to ensure that only healthy donors donate plasma, including:

• Evaluation of the donors' medical history
• Specific laboratory tests
• Specific plasma pool tests

In addition, the GAMMAGARD LIQUID processing includes steps designed to specifically purify IgG, remove unwanted small molecules, and help remove and inactivate any viruses.

GAMMAGARD LIQUID's purification steps include diafiltration and chromatographic steps which are designed to remove small molecules, like salts, solvent detergent reagents, or, potentially, drugs from the IgG.

 

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