The phrase "active ingredient for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts related to pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, or food products to specify the main component that produces a desired effect.
Example: "The active ingredient for this medication is ibuprofen, which helps reduce inflammation and pain."
Alternatives: "key component for" or "main ingredient for".
Data is an essential active ingredient for improvement.
Gilead Sciences, the California-based biopharmaceutical company that developed tenofovir, donated 65 pounds of the active ingredient for the study.
Schering-Plough holds a patent for a coating that releases the active ingredient for a sustained effect.
Baxter bought the active ingredient for this product from Scientific Protein Laboratories, which has plants in Waunakee, Wis., and Changzhou City, China.
It is then transported to middlemen, called consolidators, who direct the product to plants in China that manufacture heparin's active ingredient for shipment to either another trader or the finished dose manufacturer.
The plant was already scheduled to switch production next year from Vioxx to the active ingredient for the arthritis drug Arcoxia, he said, but will now miss three months of production.
Only a tiny fraction of those plants have been comprehensively analyzed and less than 1percentt currently provide active ingredients for cosmetics, according to experts.
More than 80 percent of the active ingredients for drugs sold in the United States are made abroad — mostly in plants in China and India that are rarely inspected by the F.D.A. Half of all medical devices sold in the United States are made abroad.
More than 80 percent of the active ingredients for drugs sold in the United States are made abroad, mostly in a shadowy network of facilities in China and India that are rarely visited by government inspectors, who sometimes cannot even find the plants.
A tablet database containing several active ingredients for a standard tablet formulation was created.
The assay of active ingredients for the brands was determined based on the new and official methods.
