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[Codeine: efflorescent crystals].

Abstract

Investigations in pharmaceutical stocks of drugs have shown a non conformity with registred theorical stocks. This leads us to study the volatilisation of codeine stored in safety boxes suggest adding the mention "slightly efflorescent" to the usual characteristics of codeine found in the monography of the French Pharmacopoea as mentionned by LEBEAU and JANOT.

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B Van Bockstael, E Boury. 1991. [Codeine: efflorescent crystals].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1841528/

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