| Pyrosate has been developed as an easy-to-use Limulus Amebocyte Lysate gel-clot test that enables rapid testing and does not require special laboratory supplies. |
| It contains a unique substance known as limulus amebocyte lysate, or LAL, that responds dramatically to the presence of even the tiniest amount of bacterial toxin. |
| Cooper JF, Weary ME, Jordan FT The impact of nonendotoxin LAL reactive materials on Limulus amebocyte lysate analyses. |
| Each year about 250,000 are rounded up and returned to the sea alive after being drained of about a cup of their milky blue blood, which is used in Limulus amebocyte lysate tests, to check blood products and vaccines. |
