TABLE I

History of Virus Contamination Due to Raw Materialsa

Raw MaterialContaminating Virus
Serum (bovine)COMMON: Bovine viral diarrhea virus (37) and BVDV RNA (38, 39)
RARE: REO virus (40); Cache Valley virus (40); epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus (41, 42)
Trypsin (porcine)Porcine parvovirus (43); Porcine circovirusb (14)
Media components (suspected)Minute virus of mice (44)
Cell substratesAvian leukosis virus (embryonated hens eggs) (6), SV-40 (primary rhesus monkey kidney cell cultures) (7, 8), endogenous retrovirus particles (chicken cell cultures [5] and rodent cell linesc [1]); TNCL Alphanodavirus (Trichoplusia ni–insect cell line Tn5) (20)
Human blood and blood derivatives components (10–12, 45)COMMON: Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis delta virus, Hepatitis C virus, HIV, HTLV
RARE: West Nile virus, Human parvovirus B19, Human herpesviruses (CMV, EBV, HSV); Hepatitis A virus
  • a Reported in human products or in cell substrates used in manufacture of human products.

  • b Reported while manuscript was in preparation.

  • c Monoclonal antibodies and therapeutic cytokines and growth factors, which use murine hybridoma cells and CHO cells, respectively, for therapeutic indications were transferred to CDER in 2003.