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The quality of a pharmaceutical product cannot be assured simply by testing starting materials or finished products. However, the requirement to test analytically raw materials and products is fundamental to ensuring medicines are fit for purpose. In most cases, the results obtained from laboratory testing of samples should be analysed before batches are released for use or sale. Furthermore, the high cost of pharmaceutical materials and globalisation of the pharmaceutical industry has led increasingly to importation of both materials and finished products. European GMP legislates that every batch of either raw material or finished product must undergo complete qualitative and quantitative analysis upon importation from outside of the EU. To ensure this requires a sound knowledge of various analytical techniques used in analysing both pharmaceutical materials and products, such as traditional analytical chemistry as well as chromatography and spectroscopic techniques.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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