The Role of Manufacturing in Product Quality
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection
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content: Medical Sciences Film Collection / Series 4: Pharmaceutical Films
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content: 1 Film reel (color, composite optical soundtrack, print, 16mm; 700 feet)
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content: Credits: Produced by Eli Lilly and Company; technical advising panel: Robert T. Koda, PhD., University of Southern California; James L. Olsen, PhD., University of North Carolina; Garnet E. Peck, PhD., Purdue University; Gerald E. Schumacher, PhD., Northeastern University; Ralph F. Shangraw, PhD, University of Maryland. 

Summary: In this lecture to pharmacy students, the film discusses quality controls in pharmaceutical factories. Testing is done on the absorption rate, potency, purity, uniformity, and stability of the drugs. Variables which affect the manufacture of drugs are mixing granulations, drying and sizing of granules, blending, and compression. And, finally, samples are sent to quality control laboratories for thorough testing and numbered identification by lots.