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Pharmacopoeial quality of drugs supplied by nigerian pharmacies.
The quality of medicines available in some less-developed countries is inadequate in terms of content of active ingredient. Reasons for the poor quality of drugs include widespread counterfeiting of medicines in less-developed countries, excessive decomposition of active ingredient as a result of high temperature and humidity, and poor quality assurance during the manufacture of medicinal products. A recent report describes investigations into the quality of different drugs obtained from retail pharmacies in two urban areas of Nigeria (1).
Based on the WHO Model List of Essential Drugs, 581 samples of 27 different drugs from 35 pharmacies in Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria …
