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A worldwide comparative-diagnostic study of medicinal natural products regulatory status
(2016)
Herbal products encompass a variety of preparations of plant origin
that are the oldest form that humanity has been using to treat diseases,
a practice that has grown enormously in the last decade. The aim of
this study ...
A Journey through the History of Drug Quality Control, from Greece to Costa Rica
(2021)
This review describes the evolution and development of drug quality control throughout different times in history. A bibliographic
research was conducted from the database JSTOR from the University of Costa Rica. This ...
Quality verification of six medicines in wholes and halves tablets, re-packaged in individual plastic compartments during sixty days
(2017)
Plastic boxes with individual compartments are often used to improve
medication compliance and only a few studies have been done on the
stability of the tablet halves after placing them on these devices. In this
investigation, ...
Physicochemical and Microbiological Assays for Quality Evaluation of a Brand of Mentha piperita Tisanes in Costa Rica Market: Employment of the Central American Technical Regulation
(2018)
Mentha piperita is a natural hybrid of water mint (Mentha aquatica) and spearmint (Mentha spicata L.), that are consumed as tisanes. For that reason, the present work evaluated physicochemical and microbiological aspects ...
Medicamentos falsificados y subestándar: un problema para la salud pública de Costa Rica y del mundo.
Counterfeit and substandars drugs: a public health problem for Costa Rica and the world
(2021)
La falsificación de medicamentos afecta a todos los países del mundo sin importar su ubicación geográfica o su grado de desarrollo económico. En Costa Rica, se han decomisado importantes cantidades de medicamentos y otros ...