TY - BOOK ED - WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization ED - World Health Organization TI - WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization : : thirty-seventh report, meeting held in Geneva from 1 to 8 December 1986 T2 - World Health Organization technical report series ; no. 760 SN - 9241207604 U1 - 100 SD;610.621 PY - 1987/// CY - Geneva PB - World Health Organization KW - Biological Products KW - Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Technology N1 - General -- Substances: Antibiotics -- Antibodies -- Blood products and related substances -- Endocrinological and related substances -- Miscellaneous -- requirements for biological substances -- Annaxes N2 - Announces changes in the status or development of international standards for 35 biologicals, classified as antibiotics, antibodies, antigens, blood products and related substances, endocrinological and related substances, and a miscellaneous group of substances. The report also provides detailed information on requirements for the manufacturing, testing, and quality control of selected vaccines, including hepatitis B vaccines made by recombinant DNA techniques in yeast, live mumps vaccine, and inactivated rabies vaccine produced in continuous cell lines. Of particular practical interest is an extensive report on a WHO meeting concerned with the use of recombinant DNA techniques to produce hepatitis B vaccines. The report also includes amendments to previous requirements for oral poliomyelitis vaccine and for diphtheria toxoid, pertussis vaccine, tetanus toxoid, and combined vaccines ER -