What is an API Starting Material?

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An API Starting Material (Active Substance Starting Material) is a raw material, intermediate, or an API that is used in the production of an API and that is incorporated as a significant structural fragment into the structure of the API.

[GMP Compliance Adviser, Chapter 20.C.5]

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