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You have just been diagnosed with health problem that needs a medicine. It is essential for you to have quality guarantees about the product you have to take. You want to be sure that the medicine has been manufactured under the strictest quality standards and subjected to careful controls.

Since 1949 Dipharma has been manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), the component of the drug product responsible for the medication effectiveness.

Our products are manufactured in three European facilities under the strictest standards of purity and process control. Our plants are regularly inspected by the health authorities of production and importing countries, such as the American Food and Drug Administration, which test the complete production process and final product strictly and carefully.

You know that when you are taking a product that contains Dipharma’s active pharmaceutical ingredient you are taking a quality product manufactured by the European company with 70 years’ experience in manufacturing high quality active pharmaceutical ingredients.

FAQ

What is an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient?

An Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is the component of a drug responsible for the therapeutic effect of the medication.

Why should you know which active ingredient is in your medicine?

When a patient is on multiple medications, active ingredients may interfere with each other, and cause more side effects. For this reason the doctor must to be informed about all the medications the patient is taking.

What are inactive ingredients?

Inactive ingredients, or excipients, are inert components of a medication. They do not affect the therapeutic effect of the drug but may facilitate acceptance, application, stability, handling or delivery of the active ingredients. Examples of inactive ingredients are fillers, colorants, flavouring agents and binding materials.

How is a medicine manufactured?

Pharmaceutical manufacturing occurs in two general steps.

1- The first step is to convert raw materials into Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), the substances used in the manufacture of a drug product. These are intended to give pharmacological activity or another direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease, or affect the structure and function of the body.

2- The second step is to create final formulations by mixing APIs and excipients (non-active ingredients), pressing the mixture into tablets, filling capsules or preparing solutions and then packaging the product for the consumer market.

Only a limited number of large manufacturers of finished pharmaceutical products have their own API manufacturing capabilities, and none of them can make all required APIs in-house. Most manufacturers have to buy APIs in the open market. As good quality active pharmaceutical ingredients are core to the manufacture of effective and safe essential drugs, it is very important for them to choose a reliable supplier as Dipharma, able to guarantee high quality standards.

How can quality influence medicine safety and efficacy?

Quality has a fundamental role in medicine efficacy. The use of ineffective, poor quality, harmful medicines can result in therapeutic failure, exacerbation of disease, resistance to medicines and, sometimes, serious health complications.