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Radiochemical purity testing of 99mTc-labelled radiopharmaceuticals: Nothing, except everything, is enough
Pruebas de pureza radioquímica de radiofármacos marcados con 99mTc: nada, excepto todo, es suficiente
Jesús Luis Gómez Perales
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, María Teresa Gutiérrez Amares
Servicio de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Universitario “Puerta del Mar” de Cádiz, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Spain. Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
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statement also made by some scientists&#46; In that editorial they also accepted the premise that testing every product is not essential and raised the question &#8220;how much is enough&#63;&#8221; that is &#8220;what frequency should we set as a minimum standard&#63;&#8221; They came to the conclusion that the exact frequency of periodic testing must be determined locally and supported by a risk assessment&#46; They also added that there are several factors that could be considered in selecting which products must be sample&#44; such as the effects of Monday elution and preparation by newly trained or retrained staff&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Nevertheless&#44; in light of all the above arguments and based on probabilistic grounds&#44; we strongly advocate testing each and every extemporaneous preparation of technetium radiopharmaceuticals&#46; Let us try to explain it below&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The probability of detecting all and each one of the failed products can be calculated through combinatorial methods by the following formula&#58;<elsevierMultimedia ident="eq0005"></elsevierMultimedia>where <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">n</span> is the total number of radiopharmaceutical preparations&#44; 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And so systematically&#44; until if we test 100&#37; of preparations&#44; the probability of detecting the failed product is 100&#37;&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Now let&#39;s suppose a frequency of RCP failures of 2&#37;&#46; That means that two out of 100 preparations are failed products&#46; If we test the RCP of 10 of them&#44; the probability of detecting the failed products is 0&#46;9&#37;&#46; If we test the RCP of 20 of them&#44; the probability of detecting the failed products is 3&#46;8&#37;&#46; If we test the RCP of 50 of them&#44; the probability of detecting the failed products is 24&#46;8&#37;&#46; And so on&#44; until if we test 100&#37; of preparations&#44; the probability of detecting the failed products is 100&#37;&#46;</p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The odds are even lower if the frequency of RCP failures is 3&#37; &#40;see <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#tbl0005">Table 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="tbl0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Extrapolation of the above data leads to two clear conclusions&#46; Firstly&#44; for the same number of controls performed on the same number of preparations&#44; the probability of detecting all and each one of the failed products decreases as their number increases&#46; And secondly&#44; whatever the number of preparations&#44; we will only have absolute certainty of detecting all and each one of the failed products if each and every one of the preparations &#40;100&#37;&#41; are tested&#46; This can be seen graphically in <a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; in light of the discussion above and emphasizing the fact that RCP testing techniques of technetium radiopharmaceuticals are very inexpensive&#44; very simple and very quick to perform&#44; it is hard to argue against testing every product as carried out for all other drugs&#46; RCP testing of extemporaneous radiopharmaceuticals has an important role to play but only if they are able to detect any failed product&#46; Therefore&#44; we stress the need for routine quality control of each and every technetium radiopharmaceutical&#46; In our opinion&#44; RCP testing should be considered as part of the routine work in every radiopharmacy&#46;</p><span id="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0005">Competing interests</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have no competing interests&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Funding</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Funding information is not applicable because no funding was received&#46;</p></span></span>"
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