European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

A COMPARATIVE PHARMACEUTICAL STUDY OF GENERIC AND BRANDED TABLET’S QUALITY CONTROL TESTS ACCORDING TO PHARMACOPOEIAS

Dhanasekaran A.*, Jothimanivannan C., Sampath T., Gokulnath M., Srither R., Arun S., Gokulprasath M.

ABSTRACT

Generic medications are pharmaceuticals that are therapeutically equivalent to an original off patent drug. Both authorized generics and branded generics are the versions of generic medications. Generic supply medications having quality of branded drugs at lower prices and this establishes their recognition among the masses who earlier has limited options to buy only brand-name drugs. In India people have many myths about generics due to lack of knowledge and awareness. Even Doctors generally not prescribed the generics drug because of they are more doubtful about quality and safety. Pharmacist not dispenses generics because of less commission on sale of generics and less demand by peoples. So this study is taken to remove this myth from their mind set. The Present study deals with a brief overview of the comparative study of quality requirements for finished products (generic and branded) quality control Tests for tablets according to Pharmacopoeias (IP/BP). For this purpose a set of 5 different tablets from generic and branded source are taken. Quality control tests were conducted on those tablets. The pharmacopoeias have laid down the specified limits within which the value should fall in order to be compliant as per the standards. However the parameters and standards differ to some extent from each other. Hence an attempt is being made to compare the quality of the each branded and generic medicines.

Keywords: Generic Medicines, Branded Medicines, Quality control, Pharmacopoeias.