Overview of the research on drug impurity / 药学实践杂志

ABSTRACT

As special commodities , drugs had closely relationships with human beings′health and life safety .Impurity, which would influence the stability and efficacy of drugs , was closely related to the quality , safety and efficacy of drugs .With more and more attendance had been attached to the impurity′s control in the development of drugs , researchers turned their attentions to the analysis of trace impurity .In this paper , related progresses in recent 10 years were summarized , including guiding principles in impurity re-search, technologies in qualitative research and general approaches in quantitative research .