Differences In Destruction Time and Determination of Generic and Trademark Paracetamol Tablets Using UV Spectrophotometry Method

Abstract

Paracetamol is one of the most widely used antipyretic analgesic drugs in the community. Paracetamol in circulation, both generic and trademarked, is generally given in the form of tablets containing 500 mg of the active ingredient. At this time people prefer to use trademarked paracetamol tablets with the assumption that trademarked drugs are more efficacious than generic drugs. This study aims to determine the difference in disintegration time and content of generic paracetamol tablets with trademarks. The study was conducted on 2 samples of generic paracetamol tablets with 2 samples of paracetamol tablets of different brands. The results of the disintegration time test showed that the average of generic A paracetamol tablets was 8.41 minutes, generic B 1.2 minutes, trademark A 2.14 minutes, trademark B 1.2 minutes. While the results of the average level test obtained paracetamol tablets generic A 109.87% generic B 105.95% trademark A 103.28% trademark B 92.49% with categories according to the standards set in the literature. The results of the Paired Sample T-test on disintegration time obtained a value of 0.006 and the results on the level test of 1.00 so that it can be concluded that between generic and trademarked paracetamol tablets only have differences in disintegration time with the same concentration.