Is sr-Honey Bee Defensin-1 vegetarian?

sr-Honey Bee Defensin-1 is a single chain recombinant protein produced by fermentation in E. coli, using a synthetic gene identical to the gene coding for Defensin-1 from the honey bee, Apis mellifera; it is biotechnologically produced without extraction from bees.

An ingredient is considered vegetarian if it avoids components derived from killing an animal.

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