2006-07-20 03:00:17 · 6 answers · asked by Society Dweller 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
International Units. It is a unit that measures the amount of active ingredient in a pill.
A pill contains several ingredients: the active dose, an excipient, a binder, a flavoring, a buffer. The excipient is the chemical that makes the drug available to your body.
International units are a quantity agreed to by Pharmacoepial Conventions. They are groups of pharmacists and physicians who meet in a big congress each year and decide on the details of their profession. After debate, they write up their conclusions in huge books called Formularies that cost $2000 a piece. Each country has it's own. Since the IU was agreed to by all the Pharmacoepial Conventions, including ours the United States Pharmacoepial Convention (aka U.S.P. - you may have seen that abbrevation as well), it becomes the standard measurement and is present in all the National Formularies in all the countries in the world.
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2006-07-20 03:15:14 · answer #1 · answered by Andy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
International Units
2006-07-20 10:02:01 · answer #2 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
International Unit, a unit established by the international conference for the Unification of Formulas.
Please see the webpage for more details on International Unit.
2006-07-20 10:15:41 · answer #3 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
International Units. It's just a unit used for measuring just like grams, liters, etc.
2006-07-20 10:12:41 · answer #4 · answered by butterfly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
international units
2006-07-20 10:02:34 · answer #5 · answered by cmjz1313 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
INTERNATIONAL UNITS.
2006-07-20 11:39:23 · answer #6 · answered by rea4154 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋