Any of several water-soluble proteins that are coagulated by heat and are found in egg white, blood serum, and milk. Milk is termed lact and milk ate and it contains 28–35% protein and 38–52% lactose. It is used as a binder in imitation sausage, soups, and stews.
World Health Organization (WHO)
Although there is no proven or even probable instance of
transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), also known as Trans- missible
Spongiform Encephalopathy, by blood, blood components or plasma derivatives,
increased awareness has raised concern about such a possibility. While published
epidemiological studies give some reassurances that transmission of CJD has not
occurred through blood, they are limited in scope, and improved surveillance for
CJD is essential. In addition to routine internationally recognized donor selection criteria the following donors should be excluded: donors who have been treated
with extracts from human pituitary glands, donors who have familial history of
CJD, Gerstmann- Str?ussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) or Fatal Familial Insomnia
(FFI), and donors who have received a human dura mater graft. (Report of a WHO
Consultation on Medicinal and other Products in Relation to Human and Animal
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. (WHO/EMC/ZOO/97.3;
WHO/BLG/97.2, WHO, Geneva, 24-26 March 1997.))
