Gamma Sterilization of Pharmaceuticals—A Review of the Irradiation of Excipients, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, and Final Drug Product Formulations

Fatima Hasanain; Katharina Guenther; Wayne M. Mullett; Emily Craven

doi:10.5731/pdajpst.2014.00955

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