Quality Assessment of Some Essential Children’s Medicines Sold in Licensed Outlets in Ashanti Region, Ghana

Table 5

Summary results of the quality of sampled essential children’s medicines with and without Food and Drugs Authority, Ghana, and/or Product Manufacturing License (PML) numbers.

Registration status of essential children’s medicines	Number of samples analyzed	Content of API (%)		pH		Microbial load
		Pass	Fail	Pass	Fail	Pass	Fail
FDA/PML number	36	12 (33.3)	24 (66.7)	27 (75.0)	9 (25.0)	36 (100.0)	0 (0.0)
No registration number	32	14 (43.7)	18 (56.3)	22 (68.8)	10 (31.2)	30 (93.7)	0 (6.3)