Research Article
Investigating the Presence of Falsified and Poor-Quality Fixed-Dose Combination Artemether-Lumefantrine Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms in Kumasi, Ghana
Table 4
Quality tests for fixed-dose AL tablets.
| Samples | Diameter (mm) SD | Thickness (mm) SD | Hardness (kg/mm2) SD | ΨFriability (%) | ¥Disintegration time (min) SD |
| LZT | 16.49 ± 0.33 | 5.67 ± 0.10 | 5.43 ± 1.11 | 0.11 | 13 ± 0.13 | LNT | 12.05 ± 0.09 | 5.94 ± 0.09 | 7.00 ± 0.85 | 0.01 | 5 ± 0.24 | MLT | 19.18 ± 0.07 | 6.85 ± 0.10 | 8.52 ± 0.52 | 0.02 | 4 ± 0.05 | LFT | 12.57 ± 0.60 | 5.81 ± 0.11 | 4.34 ± 1.23 | 0.66 | 2 ± 0.11 | CTT | 20.24 ± 0.04 | 5.86 ± 0.08 | 8.40 ± 0.67 | 0.05 | 2 ± 0.03 | TMT | 18.46 ± 0.06 | 5.81 ± 0.11 | 5.62 ± 0.58 | 0.15 | 5 ± 0.18 | IDT | 21.13 ± 0.11 | 5.68 ± 0.09 | 7.58 ± 0.95 | 0.18 | 12 ± 0.01 | DMT | 16.49 ± 0.33 | 5.67 ± 0.10 | 6.92 ± 0.57 | 0.50 | 3 ± 0.16 |
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Acceptance criteria (BP) = 4–10 kg/mm 2. ΨAcceptance criteria (BP) = NMT 1%. ¥Acceptance criteria (BP) = NMT 15 minutes. |