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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Applicants:
Donald Hallenbeck, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Simon Bates, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Inventors:
Donald Hallenbeck, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Simon Bates, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Assignee:
Shire International Licensing B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 33/00 (2006.01); A61K 31/28 (2006.01); A01N 59/00 (2006.01); A01N 55/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for treating hyperphosphatemia using lanthanum carbonate, including analytically determining the amount of an impurity in the lanthanum carbonate sample is provided. This X-ray diffraction method preferably uses the Rietveld refinement.