Indian rabbits could, at last heave a sigh of relief if the Bangalore-based pharmaceutical equipment distributor's grand plans to domestically produce a reagent for testing fever-causing pyrogens fructifies. The Rs. 3-crore Salesworth India Pvt Ltd. respobsible for pharmaceutical equipment sales of $100-million in India, plans to produce limulus asmebocyte lysate (LAL) reagent that helps screen human drugs, biologicals, animal drugs, medical devices for presence of the harmful levels of fever causing bacterial endotoxins. The LAL assay will replace the conventional method which uses rabbit to test the presence of the bacteria.