Pharmaceutical product and method of making

A method of forming a drug dosage or diagnostic product comprising forming a plurality of pharmaceutical or diagnostic unit dosage forms, each unit form including at least one active ingredient, said at least one active ingredient being present in each of the unit forms in an amount which does not vary from a predetermined amount by more than about 5%.

A method of making a plurality of pharmaceutical unit dosage or diagnostic dosage forms each containing at least one pharmaceutically or diagnostic active ingredient comprising non-destructively testing for the presence of the amount of the at least one active ingredient in each of the forms to determine whether the amount of active ingredient is present in a predetermined acceptable amount.

A product comprising:

• a package;
• and
• a plurality of diagnostic or pharmaceutically active unit dosage forms associated with the package, each unit form including at least one diagnostic or pharmaceutically active ingredient, said at least one active ingredient being present in each of the unit dosage forms in an amount which does not vary from a given amount by more than a predetermined value.

A diagnostic reagent kit comprising a plurality of separate unit forms of a diagnostic reagent each unit form comprising a diagnostic reagent deposited on a substrate wherein the amount of diagnostic reagent in each unit form does not vary from a predetermined amount by more than 5%.