AFAIK, they're inferior. But a different, better avenue to avoid using the LAL test is to simply not have endotoxin present in the first place [0]. If at least

AFAIK, they're inferior. But a different, better avenue to avoid using the LAL test is to simply not have endotoxin present in the first place [0]. If at least vaccines and medicines can be produced in strains without LAL-positive LPS, that should lower the test's usage significantly. [0] https://microbialcellfactories.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12934-015-0241-5 https://microbialcellfactories.biomedcentral.com/articles/10...