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Nature of the business and organization | 1. Nature of the business and organization Organization and business Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (the "Company" or "Emergent") is a global life sciences company seeking to protect and enhance life by focusing on providing specialty products for civilian and military populations that address accidental, intentional and naturally emerging public health threats. The Company is focused on developing, manufacturing and commercializing medical countermeasures, or MCM, that address public health threats, or PHTs. The PHTs that the Company is addressing fall into two categories: Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear, or CBRN, as well as explosive-related threats; and emerging infectious diseases, or EID. We have a portfolio of six revenue-generating products, as well as a pipeline of various investigational stage product candidates addressing select aspects of CBRN and EID threats. The U.S. government is the primary purchaser of our products and provides us with substantial funding for the development of many of our product candidates. A unique attribute of our investigational stage product portfolio is that many of our candidates are under an active development contract with significant funding from the U.S. government. Our marketed products are:
| § | BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed), the only vaccine licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or the FDA, for the general use prophylaxis and post-exposure prophylaxis of anthrax disease in combination with appropriate anti-bacterial drugs. BioThrax is also licensed in Singapore and by the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut of the German Federal Ministry of Health for general use prophylaxis of anthrax disease;
| § | Anthrasil® [Anthrax Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human)], the only polyclonal antibody therapeutic licensed by the FDA for the treatment of inhalational anthrax;
| § | BAT® [Botulism Antitoxin Heptavalent (A,B,C,D,E,F,G)- (Equine)], the only heptavalent therapeutic licensed by the FDA and Health Canada for the treatment of botulinum disease;
| § | VIGIV [Vaccinia Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human)], the only therapeutic licensed by the FDA to address certain complications from smallpox vaccination;
| § | RSDL® (Reactive Skin Decontamination Lotion Kit), the only device cleared by the FDA to remove or neutralize chemical warfare agents and T-2 toxins from the skin; and
| § | Trobigard™ (atropine sulfate, obidoxime chloride), an auto-injector device designed for intramuscular self-injection of atropine sulfate and obidoxime chloride, a nerve agent countermeasure. This product has not been approved by the FDA or any other regulatory agency, is not promoted or distributed in the U.S., and is only sold to non-U.S. authorized government buyers.
We also provide contract manufacturing services to third-party customers. We perform pharmaceutical product development and filling services for injectable and other sterile products, as well as process design, technical transfer, manufacturing validation, laboratory support, aseptic filling, lyophilization, final packaging and accelerated and ongoing stability studies. Aptevo spin-off On August 6, 2015, the Company announced its plan to separate into two independent publicly-traded companies. On August 1, 2016, the Company accomplished this plan through the completion of the spin-off of Aptevo Therapeutics Inc. ("Aptevo"), a biotechnology company focused on novel oncology and hematology therapeutics to meaningfully improve patients' lives.

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