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I have about 4mL of Timber rattlesnake venom that I have been saving after each milking. The venom has been saved in a vacuum sealed test tube in the fridge. My question is weather or not I could do something with this and if I would need some sort of permit? I thought about asking some Universities, or someone using snake venom in medical research (anti venom, cancer research, et cetra). Furthermore, at what rate does the Timber rattler produce venom?

I have never attempted to sell venom before, but if you are selling to any kind of research lab or facility, they usually have pretty high standards of protocol for how and when they accept venom. A stressed or unhealthy snake will produce smaller amounts of a weaker venom (not to say your snake is stressed or unhealthy) and most labs aren't interested in that. I have no earthly idea on what permits if any you would need.

AP

Hey, usually venom for laboratory or research require high standardard. For example in research, a pool of at least 6 unrelated adults should be used to minimize effects of individual variation. The venom should be filtered to remove any potential muscoal contaminents like a 20 micron filter. Even handling equipment of venom has a certain requirement like polythylene should be used as some peptide possess affinity to glass and polystrene.....

kog