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Property, Plant and Equipment

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract]

PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

7. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Property, plant and equipment consisted of the following:

		Estimated Useful Lives (in years)		As of December 31,								Increase
				2016				2015				(Decrease)
Laboratory and manufacturing equipment		5-10		$	5,562,938			$	3,766,556			$	1,796,382
Building and improvements		10-33			5,037,512				4,716,204				321,308
Office furniture and equipment		5-10			653,462				568,188				85,274
Construction in progress(1)					3,694,509				1,084,924				2,609,585
Land					347,114				333,486				13,628
Property, plant and equipment, gross					15,295,535				10,469,358				4,826,177
Accumulated depreciation					(5,449,242	)			(4,750,544	)			(698,698	)
Property, plant and equipment, net				$	9,846,293			$	5,718,814			$	4,127,479

⁽¹⁾ As of December 31, 2016, construction in progress consisted principally of initial costs incurred in connection with the building and equipping of our Nisin production plant for Mast Out^®. As of December 31, 2015, construction in progress consisted principally of partial payments towards new manufacturing equipment related to expanding our production capacity for First Defense^®.

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The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets used in the normal conduct of business and not intended for resale. Includes, but is not limited to, accounting policies and methodology, roll forwards, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, including composite depreciation, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, useful lives and method used, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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