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Article History

Received: 20 October 2017

Accepted: 12 April 2018

First Online: 25 April 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: In 2016, the Global Public Health Technology Review program, of the U.S. Pharmacopeia, performed original research examining global practices related to the use of medicine quality screening technologies. As part of the article, local stakeholders in the ten countries selected for the study (Argentina, China, Egypt, India, Jordan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, USA and Zimbabwe) were interviewed, either in person via telephone or through a written questionnaire. After consultation with the U.S. Pharmacopeia’s Legal division it was determined that no formal external approval (such as Institutional Review Board approval) was needed. However, the following steps were taken as part of the data collection and publication process:OrderedList removed

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