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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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![Wikipedia excerpt: Mass production
As the medical application was established, the Oxford team found that it was impossible to produce usable amounts in their laboratory.[89] Failing to persuade the British government, Florey and Heatley travelled to the US in June 1941 with their mould samples in order to interest the US government for large-scale production.[95][96] They approached the USDA Northern Regional Research Laboratory (NRRL, now the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research) at Peoria, Illinois, where facilities for large-scale fermentations were established.[97][96] Mass culture of the mould and search for better moulds immediately followed.[95]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:up7auxfvwss27p44opaaqzmz/bafkreicl52mevr3yjbtarswfo3e7vxkc7h6nrhod5a26tezcljrlb246zq)
![Wikipedia excerpt: After a worldwide search in 1943, a mouldy cantaloupe in a Peoria, Illinois market was found to contain the best strain of mould for production using the corn steep liquor process.[102] Six times as much penicillin could be produced compared to using Fleming's mold.[96] Pfizer scientist Jasper H. Kane suggested using a deep-tank fermentation method for producing large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade penicillin.[103][26]: 109 Large-scale production resulted from the development of a deep-tank fermentation plant by chemical engineer Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau.[104] As a direct result of the war and the War Production Board, by June 1945, over 646 billion units per year were being produced.[101]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:up7auxfvwss27p44opaaqzmz/bafkreiaj5y3vx64uiysilq4ohf3oy7zybc3ptle7w7ejez6xithn4k5vli)
