Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy and Chemometric Strategy Enable the Classification and Detection of Expired Antimalarial Herbal Medicinal Product in Ghana

Mensah, Jacob N. and Brobbey, Abena A. and Addotey, John N. and Ayensu, Isaac and Asare-Nkansah, Samuel and Opuni, Kwabena F. M. and Adutwum, Lawrence A. and Kolev, Spas D. (2021) Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy and Chemometric Strategy Enable the Classification and Detection of Expired Antimalarial Herbal Medicinal Product in Ghana. International Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2021. pp. 1-9. ISSN 1687-8760

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Abstract

To meet the growing demand for complementary and alternative treatment for malaria, manufacturers produce several antimalarial herbal medicinal products. Herbal medicinal products regulation is difficult due to their complex chemical nature, requiring cumbersome, expensive, and time-consuming methods of analysis. The aim of this study was to develop a simple spectroscopic method together with a chemometric model for the classification and the identification of expired liquid antimalarial herbal medicinal products. Principal component analysis model was successfully used to distinguish between different herbal medicinal products and identify expired products. Principal component analysis showed a clear class separation between all five herbal medicinal products (HMP) studied, with explained variance for first and second principal components as 37.51% and 26.38%, respectively, while the third principal component had 18.74%. Support vector machine classification gave specificity and accuracy of 1.00 (100%) for training set data for all the products. The validation set HMP1, HMP2, and HMP3 had sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 1.00. HMP4 and HMP5 had sensitivity and specificity of 0.90 and 1.00, respectively, and an accuracy of 0.98. The support vector machine classification and principal component analysis models were successfully used to identify expired herbal medicinal products. This strategy can be used for rapid field detection of expired liquid antimalarial herbal medicinal products.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Eurolib Press > Chemical Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2023 05:46
Last Modified: 29 Feb 2024 04:11
URI: http://info.submit4journal.com/id/eprint/342

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