- Adulteration” is the most damaging of the criminal activities that may affect serum users!
FBS can be adulterated by the addition of water, growth factors and/or serum of other species. Unscrupulous companies in order to enhance performance and/or lower the cost of the product can carry out one or more of these or similar activities. These practices are extremely serious as they affect critical results of life science research, and the purity of final products obtained in biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, or vaccines. When such cases are detected, victims having used adulterated product must be informed to make it possible to evaluate the damage and take corrective actions.