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B. Clinical Response: Clinical trials in humans establish safety and effectiveness of drug products and may be used to determine bioavailability. However, clinical trials approach is the least accurate, least sensitive, and least reproducible of the general approaches for determining in-vivo bioavailability. The FDA considers this approach only when analytical methods and pharmacodynamic methods are not available to permit use of one of the approaches as described above.
Comparative clinical studies have been used to establish bioequivalence for topical antifungal drug products (e.g., ketoconazole) and for topical acne preparations. For dosage forms intended to deliver the active moiety to the bloodstream for systemic distribution, this approach may be considered acceptable only when analytical methods cannot be developed to permit use of one of the other approaches. [11]
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