Use of a State Pharmacopoeia method to determine the microbiological purity of medicines containing live microorganisms
The microbiological purity determining method stated in the State Pharmacopoeia 12 <sup>th</sup> Edition for controlling the quality of medicines containing live microorganisms was assessed. Validation trials showed it possible to use a direct inoculation method to test the quality of probiotics by the index «Microbiological purity» and identified a group of drugs, the above methods for whose control needs to be further worked out.