Research Article
Investigating the Presence of Falsified and Poor-Quality Fixed-Dose Combination Artemether-Lumefantrine Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms in Kumasi, Ghana
| Samples | Weight of 20 tablets (g (x)) | Average weight (g ()) | Standard deviation (±) | % RSD | Inference |
| LZT | 7.3834 | 0.3692 | 0.0177 | 4.794 | Passed | LNT | 13.7309 | 0.6865 | 0.0078 | 1.132 | Passed | MLT | 19.8272 | 0.9914 | 0.0166 | 1.674 | Passed | LFT | 13.4692 | 0.6735 | 0.0117 | 1.737 | Passed | CTT | 19.3590 | 0.9680 | 0.0040 | 0.413 | Passed | TMT | 17.0451 | 0.8523 | 0.0097 | 1.138 | Passed | IDT | 22.7536 | 1.1377 | 0.0163 | 1.433 | Passed | DMT | 14.7696 | 0.7385 | 0.0073 | 0.948 | Passed |
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% RSD = percentage relative standard deviation. Acceptance criteria (BP): NMT ± 5%. |