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Obviously, the best way to develop a good method is to use all of the information that is available and not to rely solely on available impurities or partially degraded samples. For example, perhaps one or two impurities are available or are present in the drug substance. In this case the best strategy to develop a stability-indicating method is to use these impurities and to also generate partially degraded samples. 

Thermal Degradation. Thermal degradation follows different paths depending upon whether moisture and oxygen are present. Above 140 °C, however, moisture does not influence degradation. Continuous exposure to heat below the pyrolysis temperature can produce chain scission and autoxidation within the cellulose chains (23,24). To produce thermally degraded samples for evaluation, cotton fabrics were exposed in a forced convection oven at 168° 4°C. Fabric was removed at intervals ranging from 24r-211 hr for examination. 

Degradation Sample Selection Select the key degradation samples for further method development Focus on nrimarv degradants 10% of total degradation... 

Wen C (2006) Designing HPLC methods for stability indication and forced degradation samples for API. Am Pharm Rev 9 137-140. 

Elucidation of degradation kinetics for the reactive extrusion of polypropylene is constrained by the lack of kinetic data at times less than the minimum residence time in the extruder. The objectives of this work were to develop an experimental technique which could provide samples for short reaction times and to further develop a previously published kinetic model. Two experimental methods were examined the classical "ampoule technique" used for polymerization kinetics and a new method based upon reaction in a static mixer attached to a single screw extruder. The "ampoule technique was found to have too many practical limitations. The "static mixer method" also has some difficult aspects but did provide samples at a reaction time of 18.6 s and is potentially capable of supplying samples at lower times with high reproducibility. Kinetic model improvements were implemented to remove an artificial high molecular weight tail which appeared at high initiator concentrations and to reduce step size sensitivity. 

The release behavior depends on both the choice of polymer and on the formulation procedure. The best results were obtained with injection-molded samples. For prototypical drugs like p-nitroaniline, the drug release pattern followed closely that of the polymer degradation over a period of 9 months for PCPP. The correlation between release and degradation was still maintained in the more hydrophilic PCPP-SA, 20 80, where both processes were completed in 2 weeks. Compression molding can also be used for these polymers, but the correlation between drug release and polymer degradation is not as... 

Azotobacters. Burk and Winogradsky in the 1930s showed that these could readily be obtained from soil samples by elective enrichment with benzoate. The degradative pathway for benzoate has been elucidated (Hardisson et al. 1969), and the range of substrates extended to 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (Li et al. 1992 Latus et al. 1995). The enzyme from Azotobacter sp. strain GPl that catalyzes the formation of 2,6-dichlorohydroquinone from... 

The quantity, quality and purity of the template DNA are important factors in successful PGR amplification. The PGR is an extremely sensitive method capable of detecting trace amounts of DNA in a crop or food sample, so PGR amplification is possible even if a very small quantity of DNA is isolated from the sample. DNA quality can be compromised in highly processed foods such as pastries, breakfast cereals, ready-to-eat meals or food additives owing to the DNA-degrading action of some manufacturing processes. DNA purity is a concern when substances that inhibit the PGR are present in the sample. For example, cocoa-containing foodstuffs contain high levels of plant secondary metabolites, which can lead to irreversible inhibition of the PGR. It is important that these substances are removed prior to PGR amplification. Extraction and purification protocols must be optimized for each type of sample. 

SFE of fruits and vegetables and meat products has been reported, but the sample preparation techniques necessary to obtain reproducible results are extremely time consuming. Solid absorbents such as Hydromatrix, Extrelut " anhydrous magnesium sulfate or absorbent polymers are required to control the level of water in the sample for the extraction of the nonpolar pesticides. Without the addition of Hydromatrix, nonpolar pesticides cannot penetrate the water barrier between the sample particles and the supercritical CO2. The sample is normally frozen and the addition of dry-ice may be required to reduce losses due to degradation and/or evaporation. Thorough reviews of the advantages and limitations of SFE in pesticide residues... 

Polymeric precolumns of styrene-divinylbenzene were used by Aguilar et al. to monitor pesticides in river water. Water samples (50 mL) were trace enriched on-line followed by analysis using LC combined with diode-array detection. LC atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) MS was used for confirmatory purposes. It was found that after the pesticides had been extracted from the water sample, they could be stored on the precartridges for up to 3 months without any detectable degradation. This work illustrates an advantage of SPE for water samples. Many pesticides which may not be stable when stored in water, even at low temperature, may be extracted and/or enriched on SPE media and stored under freezer conditions with no detectable degradation. This provides an excellent way to store samples for later analysis. 

Applications Rather intractable samples, such as organic polymers, are well suited to FD, which avoids the need for volatilisation of the sample. Since molecular ions are normally the only prominent ions formed in the FD mode of analysis, FD-MS can be a very powerful tool for the characterisation of polymer chemical mixtures. Application areas in which FD-MS has played a role in the characterisation of polymer chemicals in industry include chemical identification (molecular weight and structure determination) direct detection of components in mixtures off-line identification of LC effluents characterisation of polymer blooms and extracts and identification of polymer chemical degradation products. For many of these applications, the samples to be analysed are very complex... 

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