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Formulation active Ingredients

This video explains the basic component of any pharmaceutical product - the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. Without it, any medicines are inactive.
According to the World Health Organisation, API is “any substance or combination of substances used in a finished pharmaceutical product, intended to furnish pharmacological activity or to otherwise have direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease, or to have direct effect in restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions in human beings”. Thus, a pure, stable, quality API is necessary to ensure quality medicines.

This video explains basic component of any pharmaceutical products – the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. Without it, any medicines are inactive.

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