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Test: Aspirin Contamination

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Case Study: Aspirin Contamination

 

Pharmaceutical companies submit their products for quality control. In one case the equipment used to sort the medications was not adequately cleaned. This resulted in the contamination of Aspirin tablets with Ibuprofen  Analysis by Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR) revealed the contamination.

 

Aspirin Crystal Ibuprofen Crystal



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