The technical scientific unit of the National Institute of Quality Control in Health (INCQS), part of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, has a role of investigational quality control of products and services related to health surveillance, in particular medicines denominated plasma derivative products. This paper is based on the analysis of the 3100 plasma derivative products from January 2000 to December 2004: 31.6% (n=980) of human albumin, 28.7% (n=890) of factor VIII, 21.4% (n=662) of human immunoglobulins, 8.3% (n=257) of factor IX, 7.1% (n=22) of specific immunoglobulin classes containing anti-Rho (D) immunoglobulin, anti-hepatitis B, anti-tetanus, anti-rabies and anti-varicella-zoster and 2.91% (n=91) of prothrombin complex. The products submitted to analysis came from airports and frontiers of Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and products confiscated by the states of Pernambuco, Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul. The type of analysis was characterized as: 92.3% control analysis; 5.9% fiscal analysis; 1.4% guidance and 0.4% preliminary analysis. In respect to imported plasma derivatives, 40.0% originated from the airport in Brasilia, 26.9% in São Paulo and 25.2% in Rio de Janeiro. In conclusion, 99.1% of the plasma derivative products analyzed was considered satisfactory and 0.9% unsatisfactory as identified by visual inspection, solubility, stability and chemical assays and pyrogenic and unspecific toxicity tests. Thus, the assessment of the quality of plasma derivative products is an essential tool for health surveillance.
Plasma derivatives products; quality assessment
