Erratum: Maffioli EM, Montás MC, Anyakora C. Excessive active pharmaceutical ingredients in substandard and falsified drugs should also raise concerns in low-income countries.
2024
Corrections to Drug Testing Results
Sample size: 47
Editorial
Author Information
Author(s): Journal of Global Health Editorial Team
Conclusion
The authors corrected errors in the data regarding the failure rates of analgesics with two active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Supporting Evidence
- 76% of the drugs had two active pharmaceutical ingredients.
- 65% of the drugs failed testing due to excessive active pharmaceutical ingredients.
Takeaway
Some medicines didn't pass tests because they had too much or too little of certain ingredients, and the authors fixed their earlier mistakes about these numbers.
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