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Newly-prequalified active pharmaceutical ingredient (API)

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12 September, 2016 - 02:00 (CEST)
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Levofloxacin manufactured by Shangyu Jingxin Pharmaceutical Co Ltd has been prequalified by the WHO Prequalification Team: medicines (PQTm) under its API prequalification procedure.

  • WHOAPI-245 - Levofloxacin - Shangyu Jingxin Pharmaceutical Co Ltd - CHINA  - FPPs containing levofloxacin are used in the therapeutic area of tuberculosis

Good-quality APIs are vital to the production of good-quality medicines. WHO prequalification of APIs will facilitate production of quality medicines by identifying such APIs for use by manufacturers of finished pharmaceutical products (FPPs).

API prequalification consists of a comprehensive evaluation procedure that has two components: assessment of the API master file (APIMF) to verify compliance with WHO norms and standards, and evaluation of the sites of API manufacture to verify compliance with WHO GMP requirements.