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Doctors, dieticians and health officials recommend a balanced diet that provides essential minerals for proper nutrition in the human body. The accurate analysis of metals in vitamin / mineral preparations and food supplements is very important. These metals can be classified into several groups – the major electrolytes (Na, K, Ca, Mg), crucial to normal primary physiological processes like cellular activity and metabolism; the minor minerals (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu), present in lower levels

Normal quality control procedures involve accepting a “lot” of a raw material from a supplier and then performing a series of tests to determine if the material is suitable for use in a manufacturing process. For the drug manufacturing industry, as well as many others, this is both a critical and time-consuming (and occasionally costly) step in the process. If the sample is not homogeneous or is segregated, there will be errors. Many of the standard methods for these tests are very

There are STANDARD Guidelines used to define the Identification and Purity of compounds used in Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic formulations, as well as the final Products. These protocols are described in great detail in the various Monographs of the United States and British Pharmacopoeias, the National Formulary (USP/NF and BP), the International FAO/WHO Codex (CODEX) and other Regulatory Agencies; such as the USFDA, ASTM and IUPAC. To insure the consistency of the data from material tested b