Sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, and methyl hydroxybenzoate are commonly used as preservatives in liquid pharmaceutical preparations. The purpose of this study is to determine the amount of the aforementioned preservatives in pharmaceutical products, as some recent studies have reported serious side effects associated with the ingestion of these substances. The content of 37 liquid pharmaceu...

in the present study, a simple and sensitive extractive spectrophotometric method is described for determination of buspirone. the method is based on the reaction of buspirone and bromocresol green. the ion-pair complex was quantitatively extracted into chloroform at ph 2.3 followed by spectrophotometric determination at 415 nm. the complex was stable up to 2 days and obeyed beer's law over the...

Phenytoin (pulverized powder), mefenamic acid (capsule), and sulpiride (film-coated tablet) are currently available on the Japanese market. For absorption of these drugs from their pharmaceutical preparations, they must disintegrate and dissolve during passage through the gastrointestinal tract. The bioavailability of these drugs differ among different pharmaceutical preparations and even for t...