Importance of API Testing

Medications are significant to the health of humans around the sphere. It is quite significant that these drugs have quality assurance, quality of production, and technical rigor that may ensure efficiency specifically the expected effects for the medication they are prescribed for. They should be able to fulfill their roles adequately and correctly in patients’ health. That is the reason why pharmaceutical testing holds importance.

The importance of Active pharmaceutical ingredients can be understood by the fact that it is the major effective ingredient in any product. It is the element that affects the symptoms of illness and brings the effect. Testing of this API is very crucial because if it is not tested then the drug manufacturing process can be at stake. It is an integral part of API manufacturing.

Active pharmaceutical ingredient testing is a routine activity in the pharmaceutical production process. It enhances the scope of control as one source of API can be used in other batches of drug production. Along with this, an understanding of the methods and the ability to determine distinctive impurities at a lower-level increase. The sensitivity of the method can be significantly decreased when the method is transferred from API to drug products due to medium effects.

Reasons for Testing

If we go into detail and try to find out the reasons for API testing, then here are the specific reasons:

• Ensuring general safety: Getting a new drug on the market doesn’t necessarily state that it is safe for human use. Any ingredient if mixed with the wrong types of chemicals can result in irreversible consequences. Drugs contain different compounds and adding too little or too much may lead to serious health issues. Testing ensures that developed pharmaceutical products hold the correct API quantity and is safe for use. Without testing, the health of the patients can be at risk. Even the reputation of the health care, the company which is producing, etc can be at stake. The testing aims to safeguard the protection of new products and that they don’t bring contrary side effects to patients before physicians can prescribe them.

• To Bring Efficiency: Along with safety, testing is required to establish the efficiency of a new drug. Each person has a unique genetic makeup and thus response to any API is different from human to human so to ensure overall efficiency too, testing is required. By ensuring or checking how an API cures a disease or alleviates symptoms through testing active pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturers validate its effectiveness.

• Stability Assurance: Checking the quality under the influence of light, heat, humidity, temperature and other environmental factors is quite essential as it determines whether any microbiological, chemical or physical changes affect the final product’s efficiency and integrity. It ensures the efficacy of the medicine will not be affected under any condition.

• Dosage quantity: Even the Dosage quantity also gets fixed with the testing as pharmaceutical testing may start with a low dose and increase it until the optimal dosage is achieved. Even it provides a clear picture of the drug in comparison to existing drugs too. If a product is recalled, the companies only incur losses. Testing is vital to ensure that their final products are operative, reliable, and safe.

Akums Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Akums Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a WHO-GMP-certified pharmaceutical contract manufacturer and active pharma ingredients manufacturer in India. They are blessed with extensive lab facilities and the latest equipment to carry out all types of testing inclusive of API. They prioritize the safety and security of mankind and thus ensure to take up all the pre-launch testing carefully and rationally.