Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products

This class includes:

• manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients to be used for their pharmacological properties in the manufacture of medical products (e.g. antibiotics, basic vitamins, salicylic and O-acetylsalicylic acids)
• processing of blood

This class also includes:

• manufacture of chemically pure sugars
• manufacture of probiotics
• processing of glands and manufacture of extracts of glands, etc.

This class excludes:

• manufacture of advance cell and gene therapy pharmaceutical preparations, see 21.20