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an adequate dietary intake of essential nutrients and vitamins. Safety is a major risk when it comes to buying dietary supplements. Although dietary supplements include percent of daily value, it does not confirm accuracy. Many people are uninformed of the side effects of high doses of dietary supplements and don’t realize that they can interfere with other medications and blood tests (Silva, Ludwick, 2002). Another risk is when it comes to advertising there are no set standards. Legally…

selling it to others to make profit. A drug patent is an indentation using a substance or a chemical produced by a pharmaceuticals industry. A patent gives an individual or a company full control over their product. It stops other companies or an individual from misusing the product. A patent keeps other off the market and gives the patent holder an open market. Even though a patent gives its holder a monopoly market, it is sometimes necessary to do so. A drug patent gives the pharmaceutical…

because it prevented other medications that were a new form of an existing drug from being patented. Any company trying to introduce a new medication was required to show proof that the medication had more effectiveness than an existing drug. In regards to the patent provisions in India, the provisions were put in place for many different reasons. In 1970, India Parliament adopted a new Patent Law that prohibited foods or medications from being patented. Due to India patients being poor and…

India’s drug industry has changed dramatically over the past thirty years. Their drug industry was almost nonexistent in the 1970’s. Today India is a top provider of pharmaceuticals to the world and India’s industry provides over 90% of their country’s drug needs. Globally the Indian industry is fourth overall in volume, and ranks thirteenth in value. Combined these ranks put the Indian market very near the top. This success is due to India’s government implementing new rules for the industry,…

ABOUT AVN:- AVN Footsteps is a third party manufacturing unit, producing cosmetics and pharmaceuticals goods for various marketing companies. It was established recently in 2012; by 3 partners. Right now, it is among the largest manufacturer of cosmetics in India, producing for over 100 big and small marketing companies. The company works according to the system setup by one of its partner Mr Anil Mittal. The manufacturing plant is looked over by its Plant Manager, Mr Sanjay Aggarwal. It…

Johnson and Johnson (JnJ) is the world’s sixth-largest customer health company, the world’s best all-inclusive medical devices business; also, the world’s sixth-largest biologics corporation and the world’s fifth-largest pharmaceuticals firm. JnJ headquarters is in New Brunswick, New Jersey; it has over 265 companies operating in more than 60 countries, employing over 126,000 persons (Johnson and Johnson, 2015). In this paper, I will discuss the 1982 cyanide-laced Tylenol crisis that hit JnJ…

Chapter-1 Introduction to Indian Pharmaceutical Industry 1.1 Introduction The Indian pharmaceutical industry holding the top most position among all science based technology spread with wide ranging of technicalities in the complex field of drug manufacturing and drug innovations. The Indian pharmaceutical industry stands fourth in terms of volume and attained the fourteen in terms of value. Export of Indian pharmaceutical industry works as a fuel for the growth of the industry. The Indian…

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS The present study was undertaken to formulate Solifenacin succinate immediate release tablets. The study involves preformulation studies of drug excipients, formulation and processing development along with evaluation of tablets made with the optimized formulation. Finally tablets were evaluated by in-vitro methods. 6.1. Drug excipient compatibility study Table 1. Results of compatibility study S.No. Name of Excipient Ratio of API/ Excipient Initial…

understanding of the chemistry and handling of drug compounds. A pharmaceutical drug (also referred to as a pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical preparation, pharmaceutical product, medicinal product, medicine, medication, medicament, or simply a drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.[1] Most drugs are natural: collected from sources such as plants, minerals, animals etc. These drugs are extracted and refined. Then there are drugs which may be semi-synthetic, i.e.…

Evidence of effectiveness in cost saving of generic drug expansion policies Generic drugs can save healthcare expenditures through three main pathways including generic substitution of drugs, substitution of drugs in the same therapeutic class, and reduction in the average branded prices. First, the largest cost saving comes from the generic substitution of drugs by substituting the less expensive generic drug for the therapeutically equivalent branded drugs. Generic substitution rates are…