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Published on: November 10, 2016
Assay of active pharmaceutical ingredients in drug products based on relative response factors: Instrumentation
Lisa Song Liu1, Ariel Mouallem1, Kang Ping Xiao1
1Bayer Consumer Health, Global R&D Product Development Center, Morristown, NJ, 07960 USA.
Abstract:
Relative Response Factors (RRFs) can be used for quantitation of one compound against another and it is widely used for Impurity analysis of pharmaceutical products; however, the application in potency assay is limited. Through an extensive study shown in this paper, it can be concluded that using the "RRF methodology" for potency assay is much more challenging compared to impurity analysis, due to the much tighter criteria required for potency analysis. The effects of instrument settings, which are rarely discussed or recognized in current HPLC analytical method development and quality release testing, are discussed. These factors impact the RRF just as much as other commonly recognized HPLC parameters. The effects of UV detector settings, i.e. Slit Width, Step Width, Band Width, and Data Collection Module, have been explored. This phenomenon has been demonstrated using three compounds to observe the impact of their quantitation due to the significant RRF variations. Finally, principles to reduce RRF variations have been discussed, and practical considerations of RRF application to method development and method transfer are provided.
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