"Insight" into drug quality: Comparison of simvastatin tablets from the US and Canada obtained via the internet

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 41, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1111-1115

  Veronin, Michael A ^a   Lee, Eunah ^b   Lewis, E Neil ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b Horiba Jobin Yvon   (United States)

^c Malvern Instruments Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug importation; Drug quality; Internet pharmacy

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG; SIMVASTATIN;

ARTICLE; CANADA; DIGITAL IMAGING; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG QUALITY; INTERNET; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TABLET; UNITED STATES;

CANADA; DRUG STABILITY; DRUGS, GENERIC; INTERNET; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMVASTATIN; TABLETS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547226049     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1H680     Document Type: Article

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