METHOD DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION FOR ESTIMATION OF PIOGLITAZONE IN BULK SAMPLES AS WELL AS IN TABLET DOSAGE FORMS BY USING RP -HPL C

A simple and precise RP‐HPLC method was developed and validated for the determination of pioglitazone hydrochloride in pharmaceutical dosage forms. Chromatography was carried out using Kromosil- C18 ODS column (250 x 4.6 mm; 5 μm), mixture of acetate buffer: methanol (40:60 v/v) as the mobile phase at a flow rate 1.0 mL/min. The analyte was monitored using UV detector at 254 nm. The retention time for pioglitazone HCl was 3.063 min. The proposed method was found linear in the concentration range of 20.0‐70.0 μg/ml with correlation coefficient of r2=0.9999. The developed method has been statistically validated and found simple and accurate. The mean recoveries obtained for pioglitazone HCl were in the range 99.20-101.59%. Due to its simplicity, rapidness, high precision and accuracy of the proposed method it may be used for determining pioglitazone HCl in bulk and dosage forms.