Patent ID: 8691282

Claim:
A method for producing a pancreatin pellet and/or micropellet, which pellet and/or micropellet has a spherical, ellipsoidal or drop shape, has an axis in the range 0.5 mm to 2.5 mm, comprising the steps of a) comminuting the pancreases of pigs or cattle and conducting autolysis; b) obtaining a screen filtrate by filtration of the product obtained in step a); c) precipitating the enzymes from the screen filtrate; d) filtering the product of step c) to obtain a filter cake; e) cooling the filter cake to a temperature between about −10° C. to about −40° C., to obtain a sufficient plasticity; f) extruding the cooled filter cake, in the absence of additives and/or binding agents, to form extrudates, wherein extrudable filter cake mass contains residual moisture or organic solvent residues between about 30% to about 50% by weight; g) spheronizing the extrusion obtained in step (f), in the absence of additives and/or binding agents or auxiliary substances, so as to obtain spherical, elliptical or drop-shaped pellets; and h) vacuum drying the pellets obtained in step (g) until a residual moisture content of less than 3% by weight is obtained, so that a dried pancreatin product is produced with a residual moisture content of less than 3% by weight.