Drug Detectives Lab Seminar

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

This course is a one credit lab seminar in which the students will evaluate the quality of suspicious medications from around the world. The students will learn about the economic and regulatory issues that enable low quality drugs to be sold. In lab, they will detect and document whether adulterants, degradation, or substitute active pharmaceutical ingredients are present in a sample. The results the students obtain will help improve the quality of medicine in low resource settings.