agrostis alba - Generic Medications

Standardized grass pollen extract is a sterile solution containing the extractables of grass pollen in 0.25% sodium chloride, 0.125% sodium bicarbonate, 50% glycerol v/v and 0.4% phenol w/v. Standardized grass pollen extracts include Bermuda Grass ( Cynodon dactylon ), June Grass ( Poa pratensis ), Meadow Fescue Grass ( Festuca elatior ), Orchard Grass ( Dactylis glomerata ), Perennial Rye Grass ( Lolium perenne ), Redtop Grass ( Agrostis alba ), Sweet Vernal Grass ( Anthoxanthum odoratum ) and Timothy Grass ( Phleum pratense ). The extract may be administered by the scratch, prick, puncture, or intradermal methods of skin testing for diagnostic purposes and subcutaneously for therapeutic purposes as directed under Dosage and Administration. The potency of standardized grass pollen extracts is expressed in Bioequivalent Allergy Units per mL (BAU/mL) and is determined by an in vitro ELISA Competition Assay comparing the extract to a U.S. reference grass pollen extract available from the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Bioequivalent Allergy Units per mL (BAU/mL) have been assigned to the reference extract based on quantitative skin testing (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY). CBER reference extract labeled 100,000 BAU/mL can be diluted 1:5 million and yield a 50 mm sum of erythema diameter response intradermally in highly puncture reactive subjects. CBER reference extract labeled 10,000 BAU/mL can be diluted 1:500,000 for the same response (12). Allermed's standardized grass pollen extracts labeled in BAU/mL are not interchangeable with alum-precipitated grass pollen extracts, grass pollen extracts labeled in AU/mL or non-standardized grass pollen extracts.