“…Instead, the non-volatile impurities 3 and 4, the related substances 7, 9 and 11 as well as the amino acid precursor 1 of ibandronate (Fig. 2) can be subjected to particle based detectors like ELSD, CNLSD or CAD [21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Due to the known disadvantages of the ELSD when it comes to impurity profiling, like non reproducible spike peaks and poor sensitivity [28][29][30], the CAD was chosen as detector because it does not show artefacts and provides better sensitivity.…”