Table 4

Drug samples (in testable form for spectrometry analysis) failing quality testsa

Sampling

Total Minilab

failures

Total visual

inspection failures

Total Raman

spectrometry failures


Lagos 2007

(7/20) 35%

(3/20) 15%

(7/20) 35%


Lagos 2008

(18/112) 16.1%

(11/112) 9.8%

(28/112) 25%


Lagos 2010

(9/87) 10.3%

(6/87) 6.9%

(16/87) 18.4%


Lagos Total

(34/219) 15.5%

(20/219) 9.1%

(51/219) 23.3%


Accra 2007

(12/34) 35.3%

(4/34) 11.8%

(14/34) 41.2%


Accra 2010

(9/47) 19.1%

(5/47) 10.6%

(14/47) 29.8%


Accra Total

(21/81) 25.9%

(9/81) 11.1%

(28/81) 34.6%


TOTAL

(55/300) 18.3%

(29/300) 9.7%

(79/300) 26.3%


a. Percentages are supported by (total that failed testing/total samples tested)

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