Pharmaceutical excipients and the information on drug labels;Excipientes de medicamentos e as informações da bula

Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 400-406

  Balbani, Aracy Pereira Silveira ^b   Stelzer, Lucilena Bardella ^a   Montovani, Jair Cortez ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drug labeling; Flavoring agents; Parabens; Pharmaceutic aids; Pharmaceutical preservatives; Tartrazine

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ASPARTAME; AZITHROMYCIN; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CETIRIZINE; COLORING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DRUG ADDITIVE; EBASTINE; EPINASTINE; IBUPROFEN; LORATADINE; METHYL PARABEN; NIMESULIDE; PARACETAMOL; PRESERVATIVE; PROPYL PARABEN; SACCHARIN SODIUM; SORBITOL; SUCROSE; SUNSET YELLOW; TARTRAZINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITAMIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DRUG FORMULARY; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG LABELING; PHENYLKETONURIA;

EID: 33749161876     PISSN: 00347299     EISSN: 00347299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0034-72992006000300018     Document Type: Article

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