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US 12,686,850 B2Granted
Thyroid manufacturing process and specifications
AssigneeBioiberica, S.A.U.
InventorsLaia Santiñà Viana, Pere Dalmau Castañares, Jesús Cabañas Rojo
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Abstract
The invention relates to a thyroid manufacturing process, and more particularly, to a novel thyroid manufacturing process which encompasses a new drying step during the thyroid extraction step and a further homogenization, which allow in a thyroid product with a controlled value of hormones, and it is essentially free of virus and bacteria.
Claims4
A thyroid manufacturing process from porcine thyroid glands, comprising the following steps:
- i. mincing of the porcine thyroid glands;
- ii. washing the minced porcine thyroid glands from step i) using multiple cycles of acetone;
- iii. filtering the washed thyroid glands of step ii);
- iv. drying the filtered thyroid glands of step iii) at a temperature that ranges between 80° C. and 95° C., for at least 6 hours;
- v. milling the dried thyroid glands of step iv) obtaining a milled thyroid product containing thyroid hormones;
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- vi. homogenizing the milled thyroid product from step v) with an excipient to dilute the concentration of the thyroid hormones.
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