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Family · Pharmaceutical analytical standards

Metformin

The first-choice medicine for type 2 diabetes, in use in Europe since the late 1950s. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, labelled standards, nitrosamines and other impurities.

Did you know?It derives from goat's rue (Galega officinalis), a plant used in medieval folk medicine against the symptoms we now recognise as diabetes.

MetforminGo to the active ingredient →
MetforminActive ingredientMetforminCat. No. P-M073-001CAS 657-24-9
MelaminePharmacopoeial impurityMelamineCat. No. P-M073-026CAS 108-78-1

EDQM standards 3

The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.

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