API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient)? Also called Drug Substance. Any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used in the manufacture of a drug (medicinal) product and that when used in the production of a drug becomes an active ingredient of the drug product. Such substances are in

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