What is the new method for rapid detection of counterfeit drugs?
The drug safety affects people's quality of life, physical health and even risks their lives. It also concerns the economic development, social stability, and it even related to proliferation of ethnic. During the past decades, there has been a marked increase in the number of reported case of drug safety. Counterfeit pharmaceutical productd have become a serious worldwide problem, especially in the developing countries. Many methods have been developed to identify the counterfeit(s) and adulterant(s), including chemistry, spectroscopy, and chromatography separation-based methods. Some chromatography methods which have served as the resort along this track og analytical strategy, such as high performance liquid chromatopraphy coupled with mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS). However, complicated operations and costly equipments of these technologies restricted their applicability, especially for the developing areas / countries. In the contrary, spectroscopy has the natural advantage of convenient, cheap and fast for the prescreening purpose.