Cytosorbents Corporation
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Cytosorbents Corporation manufactures and markets a medical device called VetResQ, which is a veterinary version of its CytoSorb blood purification technology. The company actively commercializes this product for use in animals, deriving revenue from the sale of equipment and disposables designed for veterinary critical care. This constitutes commercial exploitation of animals under the firm's exclusion policy.
The company's development and testing of its core CytoSorb technology relied on preclinical animal models. Scientific literature references the use of "animal septic models" to generate evidence for the device's application in sepsis, a standard but required step in the regulatory pathway for such medical devices.
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