Cefazolin sodium, a β-lactam antimicrobial agent belonging to the first generation cephalosporins, has a broad spectrum of action, acting against gram positive and gram negative bacteria. Stands out over other cephalosporins for its ability to also act against some species of Enterobacter, and have a long half-life, thus reducing the frequency of administrations. A simple, fast and reproducible method by visible spectrophotometry was developed and validated for quantification of cefazolin sodium in the lyophilized powder. This technique is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry due to its ease of execution, low cost, safety and high precision and accuracy. It has been employed in the quality control routine of numerous pharmaceuticals in order to identify them and quantify their active principles. The method was capable of detecting and quantifying the cefazolin sodium obtaining satisfactory results regarding selectivity, precision, accuracy and robustness, on linear range of 32.0 to 92.0 µg mL-1, showing the correlation coefficient of 0.9993 when analyzed at 767 nm. Due to the environmental impacts caused by global economic development, green chemistry has come up with a proposal to minimize and/or eliminate the use of harmful solvents, which generate large amounts of toxic waste to the environment and the health of operators, as well as reducing expenses with costly processes. The proposed method does not use toxic solvent, proving to be effective, low cost, easy to apply and safe for the analyst and environment.
Key words: Cefazolin sodium; quality control; visible spectrophotometry; green technique; eco-friendly method
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