Excipients: Information sources
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Remember that you can use the eMC to help you find a formulation that doesn't contain a particular excipient. If you don't know how to do this, then look at our Guide to the eMC, and particularly pages 3 to 5.
To best manage patients, and to understand the safety of an individual excipient, there are a variety of useful sources:
- The SPS website has a number of Q&As to help you, including:
- Expert sites about allergy may offer valuable advice on caring for patients. Examples include the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology and the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology
- The book Pharmaceutical Excipients (Pharmaceutical Press) describes the chemical properties of excipients and their safety. Your MI centre may have a subscription.
- Finally, Medline and Embase enable retrieval of case reports and reviews of excipient side effects.
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