The Automated Sample Preparation and Analysis of a Pharmaceutical Cream using the Focus Sample Processing Robot

The extraction of active ingredients from pharmaceutical products, especially creams, can often be a long and tedious process involving many steps and using strongly acidic and basic reagents. An automated extraction method has been written closely following the customers existing manual method, the main difference being that the volumes have been reduced to allow the use of 10mL headspace vials. The method uses the Focus Sample Processing Robot for the extraction of an active ingredient for the quality control of a pharmaceutical cream.