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How Important Is Testing Medicines Before Being Prescribed?

With the pandemic that has taken over the world, an organism that is so small that it cannot be even seen with naked eyes, the demand for medicines is at its peak. The medicine industry has always been one of the most important ones. These are drugs that help doctors cure ailments and make people feel better. The medicines prescribed by the doctors need to be taken in the exact quantity and proportion as given by the doctor or the physician. This is because, it is only in this exact quantity that the medicine will prove to be most effective and will give results. A medicine that is cure to any ailment, needs to undergo some rigorous testing before it hits the shelves of a pharmacy. USP 232 and USP 233 are two of the tests that are done to gauge the process and procedures followed in making the medicine. In fact, medicines need to undergo more testing that the usual food and beverage testing itself.

The ICP analysis is another measuring stick to find out the exact proportions and the ratio in which the contents of a medicine are mixed to make the specific medicine. Every ailment for which the medicine is given, requires the medicine to be in a specific proportion. Since medicines are trusted to be the healing agents for any sickness, it becomes all the more important to make sure that the medicines being prescribed to patients are actually safe. Doctors prescribe medicines of companies with the assumption and trust that the medicine they are prescribing will work just fine for the patient and they would feel better in no time. While laymen like you and me, who do not hold a degree in medicine or any knowledge whatsoever, cannot figure if the medicine is right or wrong, we can at least check the date of expiration marked on the medicine before consuming it.

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Emergence Of Food Product Testing

It wasn’t really common until a few years ago, to have packaged food products tests in a food lab. Leave alone establishments of food labs that hardly existed back then. But soon, as the number of cases with toxicity were on the rise, it became more and more apparent that there was an urgent need for food labs that would make sure that the packaged food is free of any kind of impurities and toxicity before it reaches the food shelf. This has become an ethical responsibility of every producer of packaged food and drinks to have the products that they are providing to the customers, tested for these impurities.

The FSSAI, that is, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India established some tests are procedures like the USP 233 and USP 232, that gave a reckoner of the tests and the order in which they need to be done. And not just that, the beverages and food products are also tested for genotoxic impurity ich m7. Testing in food lab is not limited to just that. Food lab tests also include ascertaining for how long will the food product be fresh for consumption by the consumer, whether or not the preservatives added in the food product are actually working and also, it is made sure that at no stage of food making, the contaminants become a part of the product. Plus, it is compulsory for every producer in India to have the label of FSSAI stamped on it. this signifies that the food has been tested in a food and beverage testing lab that has been certified by the FSSAI. As a consumer, before buying the product, we must look for this mark along with checking the ingredients, the nutritional values, and the date of expiration as well.

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What Kind Of Tests Does The Pharmaceutical Industry Go Through?

It is very important to keep a track of what we feed our body. It is vital for us to watch what we feed our system. Pharmaceutical industry is one of the biggest billion dollars industry in the world. Medicines, as we know, are a major part of the healing process for any kind of ailment. It boosts recovery and also helps to ease pain. With the existence of medicines, it would be very difficult to heal without pain. Since, there are millions of people around the world that rely on medicines to feel better, it is a very important responsibility of the biggest pharma corporations to ensure that the medicines being supplied to the patients are actually sae for their consumption.

Hence, all the big MNCs into the pharma industry have a compulsory liability on them to get some series of ICP analysis done for the medicines that they are going to dispatch. In a medicine, the right kind of composition is very important for it to work. Therefore, the medicines need to go through various tests since they are going to be directed consumed by the patient and it involves various types of chemicals. Tests like the ICP analysis are done to ensure that the raw materials used in the formation of these medicines are authentic and the proportion in which all the compounds are used is exactly in the way prescribed and specified.

When the testing labs tests the ingredients in the medicines, they cannot do just any kind of random testing. For it, they have to follow the USP 233 and USP 232 test series that have been laid down in order to ensure accurate and the most perfect results. If any batch of the medicines is found to have any kind of impurity in them, then the batch gets rejected and is sent further only after proper rectification and retests.

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Establishing Procedures For Drug Testing

What is the first thing you are asked to do when you get really sick? “Go see a doctor!” Because it is only the doctor who can examine and diagnose the exact problem causing your ill health and will then prescribe appropriate medicines. Mostly, you feel better over a period of time. This is because the chemicals that the medicine is composed of has chemicals that mix with the blood, react on the germ causing the condition and eventually eradicate from your system. The medicines are made in such a proportion so as to sufficiently work on the disease that’s causing discomfort.

Although it is usually written on the box of medicines warning the patient about the potential side-effects, but we end up taking them anyway because we trust the doctor who has prescribed them. But what if, the particular batch of medicine that you received was faulty? Who is to be blamed then? You can’t blame the doctor since it was not in his control, you can’t blame the drug seller for the same reason either. It would be the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the drug who is to be blamed. This is the reason why it is a mandate for all the pharma companies to follow the USP 233 and USP 232 procedures and limitations regarding the testing standards. This was established since 1st January 2018 for any kind of medicine that is produced.

Making sure that the drug prescribed is working properly and it contains the chemical and its compound in proper proportions is vital. These are to be tested at a well certified and equipped laboratory that holds the permission and certification to carry out those tests. Sometimes these labs are dedicated only to do pharmaceutical testing. But most of the times they do other tests like food and beverage testing, genotoxic impurity ich m7, soil and water testing etc.

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Testing The Medicines Though A Series Of Procedures

One of the most sensitive, risky and yet ever booming industry is the industry of medicines, pharmaceutical industry. When a doctor prescribes a medicine to the patient the patient generally follows the instructions of the doctor without questioning much. This is because of the trust that a patient has in the doctor’s prescription. However, what if this medicine that the doctor prescribed turns out to have some fault in it that even the doctor is unaware of? It could lead to side effects of negative effects on the person’s health.

This is why, it is very important that these medicines go through a proper series of tests before they are made available in the market for their consumption by the public. Today, it is a compulsion that all the pharma companies that manufacture medicines get the tests done. But how do you ensure that these tests done are also according to certain proper procedures? For this, there is the United States Pharmacopeia (USP 233) and (USP 232). These are some specified limits and procedures about the testing standards given since 1st January 2018 for any type of medicines and drugs.

There are various reasons as to why these tests are vital. Different kinds of drugs enter the market every day. More often than not, these drugs are simply a different version of the other. The combination also remains the same more or less. But just having the ingredients to be same isn’t enough. The structural combinations will also have to be proper, that is, safe for the consumption by humans.

The tests that we discussed above need to be carried out by proper labs of testing with all the required certifications and recognitions. Most of the times these labs are not just for medicinal testing, but also perform tests like food and beverage testing, water and soil, genotixic impurity ich m7 and so on. You can easily find these labs online or by word of mouth.