Question

Two or more drugs contain the same therapeutically active ingredient which elicits same pharmacological effects and can control the disease to the same extent are known to be pharmaceutic equivalent.

(a) True

(b) False

I had been asked this question in an online quiz.

The doubt is from Bioequivalence Studies in section Compartment Modelling, Non Linear Pharmacokinetics, Bioavailability and Bioequivalence of Drug Biotechnology

Answer 1

The correct option is (b) False

To explain I would say: When two or more drug products contain the same therapeutically active ingredient which elicits the same pharmacological effects and can control the disease to the same extent are known to have therapeutic equivalence. Pharmaceutic equivalence implies that two or more drug products when they are identical in strength, purity, content uniformity, and disintegration and dissolution characteristics.