a bio pharmaceutical company established in waunakee wisconsin in 1976 by oscar mayer . 1 history edit in 2004 spl was acquired by arsenal capital partners for 81 million today . 2 the company harvests heparin from pig s intestines in the usa and canada and changzhou city china and supplies the crude heparin to baxter travenol and many other pharmaceutical companies world wide . 1 3 the company was a victim along with all other pharmaceutical companies in the 2008 chinese heparin adulteration . 1 references edit a b c heparin s deadly side effects . time magazine . 2008 . retrieved 2008 11 16 . a month earlier and half a world away a team of quality control specialists from baxter international the big multinational health care company 2007 sales 11.26 billion based in deerfield ill . arrived in zhejiang province china about two hours by car from shanghai to inspect a facility owned by one of its key suppliers . cz spl is a joint venture controlled by scientific protein laboratories llc spl a waunakee wis. company started in 1976 by oscar meyer of hot dog fame . the connection pigs naturally produce proteins used in pharmaceuticals . cz spl makes a key ingredient what in the pharmaceutical business is called an active pharmaceutical ingredient or api for a drug called heparin a blood thinner that is widely used by kidney dialysis and postsurgical patients to prevent blood clots . the team found little unusual and gave the facility a clean bill of health . scientific protein laboratories acquired by new york firm . wisconsin technology network . retrieved 2008 11 16 . fda finds contaminant in baxter s recalled heparin products . forbes . 2008 . retrieved 2008 11 16 . scientific protein laboratories of waunakee wisc. and its changzhou spl plant in changzhou city china is baxter s main supplier of the active pharmaceutical ingredient in heparin woodcock said . dead link external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scientific protein laboratories & oldid 714514045 categories 1976 establishments in wisconsindane county wisconsincompanies based in wisconsincompanies established in 1976hidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 april 2016 at 06 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view