Dr. Jerry Murray gave this info to me in a private exchange and when asked said that I could carry it to the FML (where the conversation originated) and the FHL, so it will be handy for both in both archives later. >Hi Sukie > >Idexx has a recombinant PZI insulin that should be approved by the FDA >soon. They were hoping it would be approved this year, but hopefully >by the spring of '09 it will be approved. Other countries (Canada, >Australia, most of Europe) do not allow regular PZI to be imported >there due to the beef part of PZI (ie fear of mad cow disease being >imported). Thus Idexx is changing to a recombinanat PZI which works >just as well but has no real beef in it. Idexx still has some stock >of their regular PZI available, so no shortage of it yet. > >Jerry Sukie (not a vet) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html [Posted in FML 6157]