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Robustness testing of capillary electrophoresis methods is an important part of method validation. Appropriate use of experimental designs can be employed in this robustness testing. In this study experimental designs were used in the assessment of a capillary electrophoresis method used to determine drug related impurities. Initially a fractional factorial screening design was used to identify the critical parameters which were found to be pH and voltage. A central composite design was then performed to evaluate the response surfaces for pH and voltage which showed operation at the optimum pH and voltage values.
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Altria, K.D., Filbey, S.D. The application of experimental design to the robustness testing of a method for the determination of drug-related impurities by capillary electrophoresis. Chromatographia 39, 306–310 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02274518
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