Benefits
Plant-cell-produced vaccines offer many benefits over animal-cell-produced vaccines.
| Feature |
Advantage |
Benefit |
| Non-replicating sub-units |
No shedding or reverting to virulence |
Less stress to animal |
| No components of animal origin |
Free of adventitious (extraneous) agents |
Bio-secure supply |
| Bio-contained |
Environmentally safe |
Sterile production |
| Highly stable |
Easier to store and handle |
Consistent performance |
Plant-Cell-Produced vaccines:
- Eliminate the risk of animal virus contaminants associated with current production systems.
- Are uniquely suited to produce subunits that cannot revert to virulence and shed to other animals in the same environment.
- Can be targeted against the specific parts of the disease agent that are required for immunity since only the subunit goes into the vaccine.
- Are produced in a totally bio-contained process – a sealed and sterile environment.
- Are highly stable and thus provide storage and handling advantages along with consistent performance.
