| Literature DB >> 18620922 |
Camilla Ricci1, Leonard Nyadong, Felicia Yang, Facundo M Fernandez, Christopher D Brown, Paul N Newton, Sergei G Kazarian.
Abstract
Pharmaceutical counterfeiting has become a significant public health problem worldwide and new, rapid, user-friendly, reliable and inexpensive methods for drug quality screening are needed. This work illustrates the chemical characterization of genuine and fake artesunate antimalarial tablets by portable Raman spectroscopy and validation by FT-Raman spectroscopy and ambient mass spectrometry. The applicability of a compact and robust portable Raman spectrometer (TruScan) for the in situ chemical identification of counterfeit tablets is reported.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18620922 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2008.06.007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Anal Chim Acta ISSN: 0003-2670 Impact factor: 6.558