Although various analytical techniques are available for the evaluation
of drugs, chromatographic analysis are considered better due to the
their stability, reproducibility and sensitivity. In recent years, the
development of HPLC methods for the determination of drugs has attracted
considerable attention of pharmacokineticians due to their importance in
the quality control tests of drugs and their formulations. A world wide
competition is in progress for developing rapid, convenient and
sensitive HPLC methods in quality control testing. This book provides
basic guidelines for the HPLC calibration, and method development for
the rapid quantification of cetrizine. This method was validated and
applied for the determination of cetrizine in tablets and their
stability studies. This book is useful to the pharmacokineticians who
are interested in the development and validation of stability indicating
HPLC methods for cetrizine HCl and other drugs of same physico-chemical
properties.