Table 2.

List of misoprostol samples. Assay and dissolution values which are out of specification are marked by “!”. RSD = relative standard deviation; HC = Health Center; CMST = Central Medical Stores Trust

¹PMPB = Pharmacy, Medicine and Poisons Board of Malawi; for registered medicines, the PMPB registration number is given;²facility number as listed in Additional File 1;³at time of analysis;⁴manufacturing date not stated on packaging; information from the websites of HPRA (www.hpra.ie) and emc (www.medicines.org.uk/emc);⁵no dissolution testing due to small sample size;⁶WHO-prequalified finished pharmaceutical product [32, 33];⁷collected in Sep 17 as open PVC-bottle, analysed in Feb 18;⁸collected in Sep 17 as sealed PVC-bottle, analysed in Feb 18;⁹incomplete information; manufacturer may have won a tender with CMST and may therefore have undergone accelerated registration