Table 2 Visual & physical and QC Tests Results - Guyana
From: Quality of anti-malarials collected in the private and informal sectors in Guyana and Suriname
Medicine | No. of Medicines Analyzed | No. of Visual & Physical Inspection Failures | QC Test Failed | No. of QC Test Failures1 | Overall Failures (%)2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Identification | Content | Dissolution | Disintegration | Impurity | UDU/WV | |||||
Artemos-Plus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 (100) |
Co-Arinate | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) |
Artemos-40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 (100) |
Artecom | 26 | 26 | 0 | 3 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 3 | 26 (100) |
Amodiaquine | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) |
Artesunate | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3(100) |
Chloroquine | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 (75) |
Halofantrine | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) |
Mefloquine | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | - | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 (71) |
Primaquine | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - | - | - | 0 | 2 | 3 (75) |
Quinine | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 (60) |
Total | 77 | 30 (39%) | 2 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 18 (23%) | 45 (58) |