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Advantages and disadvantages of drug coloring method

1. Advantages: easy to identify: drug coloring can be more intuitive to identify different medicines, to avoid confusion due to similar appearance; improve safety: drug coloring can prevent the drug from being misused or abused, thus improving the safety of the drug; increase the aesthetics: drug coloring can make the drug more aesthetically pleasing, which increases the patient's experience of using the drug.

2. Disadvantages: affecting the quality of medicines: coloring may affect the quality of medicines, such as the stability and purity of medicines; risk assessment: the use of coloring needs to be risk assessed to ensure that it does not have adverse effects on the human body; easy to be imitated: after the coloring of medicines, they can be easily imitated by imitators, which increases the risk of the medicines.