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Pharmaceutical industry has a lot of constraints and specialties which make it stand on a completely differents scale than any other industries. Being closely related to the medical field and also complementary to it, the pharmaceutical industry needs utmost care and precision in each and every aspect of the field ranging from collecting the raw materials to getting the final product ready for supply in the market.

In the pharmaceutical industry, you might hear the terms “FDF” and “API” frequently used in reference to products. We surely understand this type of jargon, but we certainly can see how the general public would feel overwhelmed looking at those kinds of terminology abbreviations. This article is for explaining the difference between API and FDF. For reference, they mean, respectively, “finished dosage form” and “active pharmaceutical ingredient.”

Tofacitinib (marketed under the brand name Xeljanz) is an oral Janus kinase inhibitor currently approved for the treatment of RA. It was developed in a unique public-private partnership between the National Institutes of Health...

Pharmaceutical intermediates are actually chemical raw materials or chemical products that need to be used in the synthesis of drugs. Such chemical products can be produced in ordinary chemical plants without obtaining a pharmaceutical production license. As long as the technical indicators meet certain level requirements, they can be used to participate in the synthesis and production of drugs.

The rapid development of China's pharmaceutical intermediate industry is closely related to its national policies. Since 2016, China has issued clear documents to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to develop new drugs, including chemical raw materials. At the same time, the structural upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry in developed countries has promoted the transfer of global related industrial chains and promoted China's chemical raw material drug supply chain. In addition, the increase in Chinese radiography technology has boosted product demand.

In the pharmaceutical industry, there are various names of raw materials, such as pharmaceutical raw materials, pharmaceutical intermediates and pharmaceutical excipients in the process of pharmaceutical production. This article will take everyone to recognize these three concepts.