Family · Pharmaceutical analytical standards
Picosulfate
A contact stimulant laxative, used for decades for constipation and, combined with magnesium salts, for bowel cleansing before colonoscopy: it works by increasing the peristalsis of the colon. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities and other impurities.
Did you know?On its own it is inactive: bacteria in the colon turn it into the active molecule (BHPM), the same one responsible for the effect of bisacodyl.
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EDQM standards 2
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
