Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Assurance

• Quality control and quality assurance
• Pharmaceutical quality control
• Scope of Pharmaceutical Analysis and Quality Assurance

Pharmaceutical analysis is a process that is used for detection, determination, separation, purification, and structure elucidation of a given compound that is used in the formulation of pharmaceutical substances.

It is also called analytical chemistry that deals with the drugs both as bulk drug substances and as pharmaceutical formulations. Product analysis deals with the various formulations used for toxicological studies, clinical studies, and marketing.

Based on the determination, pharmaceutical analytical methods are of two types. They are:

• Quantitative analysis
• Qualitative analysis

Quality assurance is defined as a planned and systematic activity that is implemented within the quality system which can be demonstrated to provide confidence that a product or a service will fulfill the quality requirements. It is a system for evaluating performance, service, or the quality of a product against the system, standard or specified requirement for customers.