EXTRAÇÃO DO PARACETAMOL E ANÁLISE DA DISPERSÃO DA MASSA DE COMPRIMIDOS: COMPARANDO MEDICAMENTOS GENÉRICO E DE REFERÊNCIA EM LABORATÓRIO DE ENSINO

Medicines are employed in undergraduate courses as motivational strategy. The experiment herein developed compares the extraction of paracetamol from generic and brand name drugs. Tablets were used from two commercial sources purchased from local drugstores. Twenty tablets of each drug type were individually weighed to average weight analysis and mass dispersion was statistically analyzed in simulating of quality control. Average weight had variation in accordance with the limit of ±5% specified by Brazilian Pharmacopeia. Tablets of each drug were pulverized and extracted in triplicate with e...