Patent ID: 8283147

Claim:
A pancreatin product of reduced microbial and viral contamination produced by a method comprising the steps of: (a) providing pancreatin in solid form with a residual moisture of 0.5 weight percent (weight %) or less based on the weight of pancreatin provided and (b) subjecting the pancreatin provided in step (a) to a heat treatment at a temperature of 84° C. or less obtaining heat treated pancreatin wherein the biological activity of the heat treated pancreatin obtained in step (b) corresponds to at least 50 percent (%) of the biological activity of the pancreatin provided in step (a); and the viral infectiousness of the heat treated pancreatin obtained in step (b) is reduced by a factor of more than 1 log 10 in comparison with the viral infectiousness of the pancreatin provided in step (a).