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Chlordiazepoxide

The first benzodiazepine ever synthesised, made in the mid-1950s by chemist Leo Sternbach and approved in 1960; it is used for anxiety and for alcohol withdrawal symptoms. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, nitrosamines and other impurities.

Did you know?Its discovery was pure chance: only in 1957 did tests reveal the compound's anxiolytic and muscle-relaxant effects; it was originally called methaminodiazepoxide.

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EDQM standards 3

The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.

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