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Lal test has been indispensable tool to determine if a pharmaceutical or medical device will cause harm on our body instead of doing its intended purpose. LAL test is conducted on pharmaceutical and medical products to make sure that no pyrogens or bacterial endotoxin is present on the product before they are approved to be available on the market. Bacterial endotoxin or pyrogens can cause fever leading to shock when introduced in our body.

Frederick Bang’s discovery of the properties of the horseshoe crab’s blood cells known as amoebocytes has been of great use to ensure our safety when using pharmaceutical and medical devices. Today the LAL test is widely used in the pharmaceutical and medical industry. One of the requirements of the Food and Drug administration is for medical and pharmaceutical products to pass this test to ensure that it is endotoxin or pyrogen free before it gets approved for production in the market