Analysis of Drug Impurities

This book is intended for student and practitioners alike and is structured to bring the relevant disciplines together in one reference book.

A key component of the quality of pharmaceutical drugs is the control of impurities. It is important to identify and quantify levels of impurities that may be present to provide safe, effective and well-controlled medicines.

The measurement and identification of impurities to today’s standards presents significant challenges to the analytical chemist. The development of modern quantitative methods is driven by these challenges, and the rapid development of spectrometers has provided increasing opportunity to identify the structure, and therefore the origin and safety potential, of such impurities. This book provides a source of information for the analytical chemist to understand the challenges and the techniques available to permit accurate identification and quantification of drug impurities.

This is a unique book; the editors are to be conrgatulated on persuading their industrial colleagues to write chapters, providing an industrial focus on analytical issues. This is a useful volume which fills a gap in the literature… I would recommend the book to all process and analytical chemists.