Spectroscopic Analytical Methods for Detection of Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Preparations – A MiniReview

Abstract

Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is becoming a serious problem all over the world. This paper presents several of the most important methods used to elucidate this problem including near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, isotopic characterization, chromatographic and mass spectrometric approaches.

Keywords

• counterfeit drugs
• spectroscopic methods
• pharmaceutical drugs
• herbal medicines

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