Pharmaceutical Chemicals: Management

 MANAGEMENT

Various Official Compendia of different countries categorically specify descriptive as well as informa-tive details with regard to the pharmaceutical substances and formulated dosage forms produced therefrom. Hence, all pharmaceutical chemicals and finished products must rigidly conform to the laid-out standards in a particular country and are subjected to various checks at different levels either by Government/State owned drug testing laboratories or by Government/State approved drug testing laboratories.

 

Official Compendia for pharmaceutical substances usually include the following parameters, namely :

 

·              Description of the Drug or Finished Product

 

·              Identification Tests

 

·              Physical Constants

 

·              Assay of Pharmaceutical Substances

 

·              Assay of Principal Active Ingredients in Formulated Dosage Forms

 

·              Limit Test

 

·              Storage Conditions

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