PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS OF HPTLC AND METHOD VALIDATION
HPTLC as an analytical technique has applications in multiple fields. It can be used for qualification and quantification of samples in sectors like Pharmaceuticals, Herbals, Cosmetic, Food and Forensic sciences and it can also be used as a fingerprint analysis technique in the above fields. HPTLC instrumentation involves different modules for application, development, image documentation and detection. Application of HPTLC in pharmaceutical field: As all the compounds which are analysed by TLC can be analysed using HPTLC, it has a wide variety of applications in the Pharmaceutical field. 1. Impurity profiling 2. Content Uniformity 3. Forced Degradation 4. Stability 5. Limit test 6. Assay Validation of a method is very important as it tests the suitability of the method and makes sure that there are no errors. HPTLC Analysis Analytical method validation is essential in the Pharmaceutical field and the ICH Q2 guidelin