Capillary electrophoresis i.k.
pharmaceutical industry. It is used as an alternative or complementary technique to HPLC,
due to its high efficiency, speen of analysis, reduction in solvent and sample consuption, and
low operating cost compared to HPLC methodology. CE is used for routine, particularly for
analysing serum proteins and disease markers in many hospitals and clincis. CE technique has
also dramatically increased throughput for DNA profiling in criminal investigation and CE
data have been shown to be credible evidence in law courts, and forensic testing laboratories
have piblished validated procedures. Pharmaceutical companies make extensive use of CE, in
particular for chiral separations, and the technique is widely adopted for analyzing