Glossary Term

API

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is the biologically active component of a medicine responsible for its therapeutic effect, manufactured to strict quality standards before formulation into a finished product.

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Related terms
FDF GMP COGS
Further reading
NIH: API Definition Wikipedia: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Browse the HEOR resource database

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