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Analytical Chemistry in Pharmacy

Application
Commonly, analytical chemistry study is really applicable in pharmacy area. It has been used since
long time ago for many purposes. The application areas include quality checking of compound from
inorganic compound, organic compound, chemical products, drugs and many more.

In the pharmacy discipline perspective, analytical is the science study that gives the idea about
compound separation, identification and quantification which are beneficial for some pharmacy
measurement process like bioavailability of drugs. Analytical study can also be used in the purifying
process during the synthesis of drugs and identifying the drug metabolic pathways. Here’re some
great advantages of analytical study in the pharmaceutical field.

1. Determining Self-Life of Compound

Self-life is the time period until that kind of compound will be fit for use. In term of drug, this means
the time needed for 90% of the drug containment to keep fit after it’s being produced. It’s the expiry
date which is usually marked on every medicine products. We know that in pharmacy industry,
medicine is stored in the refrigerator or the darker places to keep its self-life.

2. Determining Adulterants

Impurities is one of the common issue in the pharmacy industry. This happened due to the use of
many chemicals intermediates and reagents. This means that there are more possibilities for
impurities material like heavy metal or dirt to be included during the manufacturing process of drugs.
Analytical chemistry plays an important role to determine the formula used in the impurity limitation.
If the impurity contained in the drugs is more than the limit level, so that drugs shall not be consumed.
The accuracy of this formulation, which uses the basic of analytical chemistry, is really important to
make sure that every drug is safe to be consumed.

3. Dissolution in Drugs

The drug dissolution study is really important for the pharmacy industry. This kind of study is
conducted to determine whether the medicine is released from its form, which can be tablet,
ointment or capsule. So, before the medicine is produced, it should undergo the capability test to
release the medicine from its form in the right kind of medium. In this study, the time needed for drug
to be released is also explored.

These points are important because when medicine is swallowed by human, it stays on the stomach
for not more than 1 hour. So, the ability of medicine to release should be less than 1 hour. In addition,
medicine will also show different effects with different doses. This drug dissolution study uses the
concept of analytical chemistry to test the releasing process of medicine from its form. Ensuring the
accuracy of that process is really important, so that the strong understanding of analytical chemistry
is highly needed.

4. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

Analytical chemistry can also be used in the medical chemistry for the qualitative and quantitative
analysis.

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Analytical Chemistry Application in
Agriculture
Agriculture also uses the analytical chemistry in many areas. Here’re the three major applications of
analytical chemistry in the agriculture field.

5. Soil Testing

The analytical chemistry is also important for the soil test process in the agriculture field. The soil test
itself aims to understand the inorganic and organic minerals containment in the soil. Knowing this
data, we can understand how great is that soil to grow the certain kind of crop. This kind of test also
discover the microbial environment, fertility and pesticide residues in the soil. The soil testing uses
the concept of analytical chemistry in its method.

6. Water Testing

Water is one of the vital part in the agriculture. The right water shall be chosen to perfectly grow your
crops. There’s example of water which is not good for the crops like the type of water which is able to
deposit lime on the fertile sole making that soil not proper to be cultivated. Analytical chemistry plays
the great role in analyzing the water and showing all of water containment. It can define the right
water for the crops. This study also gives us idea how to make changes to the water composition so
that I can be fit with the crops.

7. Harvested Crop Testing

After the crops are harvested, they have to undergo some quality test in order to check the impurities,
pesticide residues and many more. This kind of test is really essential to make sure that the crop is
perfectly safe to be consumed by people. And the analytical chemistry gives us the basic concept
and method to conduct such this harvested crop test.

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Analytical Chemistry Application in Medical


Technology & Studies
Analytical chemistry is also really impactful to the medical industry. The technology used in the
health care takes the basic concept of analytical chemistry. It’s widely used in the diagnosis proses
in the medical area. So, here’re some examples of analytical applications in medical.

8. Medical Test

Analytical chemistry concept is being used widely in the simple medical tests like serum cholesterol,
urine ketones, and blood glucose level. In the blood glucose test, for an example, analytical
chemistry is used. The common method of this blood glucose test is converting the glucose to
colored substance in the beaker. Then the analysis is conducted by titration with reacting compound.
This kind of test is done with the concept of analytical chemistry

9. Serum Cholesterol Test


Following the first example, serum cholesterol is another common medical test which uses the
analytical chemistry study. In this kind of test, serum cholesterol is centrifuged and mixed with the
colored substance. The colored layer of the cholesterol then will be analyzed with the
spectrophotometry.

10. Medical Diagnosis

Analytical chemistry is used widely for medical diagnosis. Analytical chemistry gives some great
options for analysis method used for health care diagnosis. There’re some common examples of
analysis methods in medical like titrations, chromatography, spectroscopy and so on. These
methods are less expensive and more suitable to be used in different cases.

Analytical Chemistry Application in Food &


Beverage
Analytical chemistry is important too for the food and beverage industry, especially in its quality
control process. There’re many applications of analytical chemistry for controlling quality of food or
beverage. Here’re some examples of analytical chemistry application in food & beverage industry.

11. Food Contamination Test

Contamination from outside sources can also occur in the food or beverage products. This can be
caused by some reasons like improper storage, not suitable raw material or improper process in the
packaging or manufacturing process. There’s many different kind of contaminants like pesticide. To
minimize this risk, the food containment test is always conducted using the analytical chemistry
concept. This study gives information about right method to detect the containment even in the low
percentage.

12. Off-Flavor Food Test

Contamination can also cause the off-flavor in the food products. The contamination source can be
from packaging material. Using the method in analytical chemistry, this off-flavor food test can surely
be done to make sure that foods meet its required quality.

13. Toxic Test

There’s also risk that food or beverage contains the toxic or other bad chemical matters. This issue
may be caused by the improper or contaminated raw material, bad package material and many more.
Analytical chemistry can be used to check this toxic contamination in the food or beverage products.
For an example, the benzene content of the orange drink can be analyzed to determine whether the
beverage safe to drink.

14. Package Failure Test

Packaging failure can be the serious issue for the food or beverage company. Some package
failures include packaging deterioration, contamination, sealing failure, contamination and so on. By
using the analytical chemistry study, the microscopy study as an example, can give the great
analysis for this package failure issue.

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