Involving Students in the Distributed Pharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory: A Citizen-Science Project to Evaluate Global Medicine Quality.

ABSTRACT: The distributed pharmaceutical analysis laboratory (DPAL) is a collaboration between 30 academic institutions around the world, whose goal is to determine the quality of medicines collected from partner organizations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Institutions complete system suitability for a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system using United States Pharmacopeia (USP)-traceable reference standards, and are then approved to analyze batches of samples that are collected in LMICs by covert shoppers. Open Science Framework (OSF) allows DPAL participants access to resources for the program including an HPLC methodology manual, a wiki with HPLC troubleshooting information, detailed checklists and Excel templates for system suitability and sample assay, as well as st

SUBMITTER: Bliese SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8026146 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature