Pharmacy

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotechnology researchers can also benefit from routine osmolality testing. Benefits include monitoring drug development and media manufacture for proper consistency and formulation, and assuring proper shelf-life and product stability.

Pharmaceutical and therapeutic consideration of osmotic effects has been directed towards the side effects of ophthalmic and parenteral medicinals due to abnormal osmocity, and either formulating to avoid the side effects or finding methods of administration to minimize them.

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