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SUBMITTER: Monge ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3991657 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Monge María Eugenia ME Dwivedi Prabha P Zhou Manshui M Payne Michael M Harris Chris C House Blaine B Juggins Yvonne Y Cizmarik Peter P Newton Paul N PN Fernández Facundo M FM Jenkins David D
PloS one 20140418 4
Reproductive health has been deleteriously affected by poor quality medicines. Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) are an important birth control method that women can use after unprotected coitus for reducing the risk of pregnancy. In response to the detection of poor quality ECPs commercially available in the Peruvian market we developed a tiered multi-platform analytical strategy. In a survey to assess ECP medicine quality in Peru, 7 out of 25 different batches showed inadequate release of l ...[more]