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Active pharmaceutical ingredients and Schemes Approved to Promote Drug Manufacturing Part of: GS-III- Economy and Manufacturing (PT-MAINS-PERSONALITY TEST) The pharmaceutical drugs which are biologically active are called active ingredients (AI). In medicine, terms such as bulk active and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) are also interchangeably used. For natural products, the term active substance is used. There are certain medication products that could comprise of multiple active ingredients. “Pharmacon” or “Pharmakon”, is a traditional word for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient originally denoting a magical drug or substance. Often, “active constituent” is used while giving references to the active substance of interest in…
20 April, 2020
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals