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With the pandemic that has taken over the world, an organism that is so small that it cannot be even seen with naked eyes, the demand for medicines is at its peak. The medicine industry has always been one of the most important ones. These are drugs that help doctors cure ailments and make people feel better. The medicines prescribed by the doctors need to be taken in the exact quantity and proportion as given by the doctor or the physician. This is because, it is only in this exact quantity that the medicine will prove to be most effective and will give results. A medicine that is cure to any ailment, needs to undergo some rigorous testing before it hits the shelves of a pharmacy. USP 232 and USP 233 are two of the tests that are done to gauge the process and procedures followed in making the medicine. In fact, medicines need to undergo more testing that the usual food and beverage testing itself.

It wasn’t really common until a few years ago, to have packaged food products tests in a food lab. Leave alone establishments of food labs that hardly existed back then. But soon, as the number of cases with toxicity were on the rise, it became more and more apparent that there was an urgent need for food labs that would make sure that the packaged food is free of any kind of impurities and toxicity before it reaches the food shelf. This has become an ethical responsibility of every producer of packaged food and drinks to have the products that they are providing to the customers, tested for these impurities.

It is very important to keep a track of what we feed our body. It is vital for us to watch what we feed our system. Pharmaceutical industry is one of the biggest billion dollars industry in the world. Medicines, as we know, are a major part of the healing process for any kind of ailment. It boosts recovery and also helps to ease pain. With the existence of medicines, it would be very difficult to heal without pain. Since, there are millions of people around the world that rely on medicines to feel better, it is a very important responsibility of the biggest pharma corporations to ensure that the medicines being supplied to the patients are actually sae for their consumption.

Hence, all the big MNCs into the pharma industry have a compulsory liability on them to get some series of ICP analysis done for the medicines that they are going to dispatch. In a medicine, the right kind of composition is very important for it to work. Therefore, the medicines need to go through various tests since they are going to be directed consumed by the patient and it involves various types of chemicals. Tests like the ICP analysis are done to ensure that the raw materials used in the formation of these medicines are authentic and the proportion in which all the compounds are used is exactly in the way prescribed and specified.

What is the first thing you are asked to do when you get really sick? “Go see a doctor!” Because it is only the doctor who can examine and diagnose the exact problem causing your ill health and will then prescribe appropriate medicines. Mostly, you feel better over a period of time. This is because the chemicals that the medicine is composed of has chemicals that mix with the blood, react on the germ causing the condition and eventually eradicate from your system. The medicines are made in such a proportion so as to sufficiently work on the disease that’s causing discomfort.

Although it is usually written on the box of medicines warning the patient about the potential side-effects, but we end up taking them anyway because we trust the doctor who has prescribed them. But what if, the particular batch of medicine that you received was faulty? Who is to be blamed then? You can’t blame the doctor since it was not in his control, you can’t blame the drug seller for the same reason either. It would be the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the drug who is to be blamed. This is the reason why it is a mandate for all the pharma companies to follow the USP 233 and USP 232 procedures and limitations regarding the testing standards. This was established since 1st January 2018 for any kind of medicine that is produced.

One of the most sensitive, risky and yet ever booming industry is the industry of medicines, pharmaceutical industry. When a doctor prescribes a medicine to the patient the patient generally follows the instructions of the doctor without questioning much. This is because of the trust that a patient has in the doctor’s prescription. However, what if this medicine that the doctor prescribed turns out to have some fault in it that even the doctor is unaware of? It could lead to side effects of negative effects on the person’s health.

This is why, it is very important that these medicines go through a proper series of tests before they are made available in the market for their consumption by the public. Today, it is a compulsion that all the pharma companies that manufacture medicines get the tests done. But how do you ensure that these tests done are also according to certain proper procedures? For this, there is the United States Pharmacopeia (USP 233) and (USP 232). These are some specified limits and procedures about the testing standards given since 1st January 2018 for any type of medicines and drugs.

There are various reasons as to why these tests are vital. Different kinds of drugs enter the market every day. More often than not, these drugs are simply a different version of the other. The combination also remains the same more or less. But just having the ingredients to be same isn’t enough. The structural combinations will also have to be proper, that is, safe for the consumption by humans.