Film coating is a contemporary and widely used process for coating oral solid dosage forms in the pharmaceutical industry. It is a process that draws on...
In any coating process, a variety of problems may be encountered. Often such problems may be related to formulation issues that have been compounded by those...
The sugar coating process involves building up layers of coating material on the tablet cores by repetitively applying a coating solution or suspension and drying off...
Sugar coating has long been the traditional method of coating pharmaceutical dosage forms. The process has its origin in the confectionery industry and has been used...
Tablet coating is a process by which an essentially dry, outer layer of coating material is applied to the surface of a dosage form in order...
Tablets are solid drug delivery system prepared by compressing a single dose of one or more active drug substance(s) with some additives/ pharmaceutical excipients. They may...
In-process quality control tests are simply routine checks that are performed during production. They are those tests carried out before manufacturing process is completed to ensure...
Quality control of pharmaceutical formulations is an essential operation in the production of drugs. It is a procedure or set of procedures designed to ensure the...
This article outlines the various direct compressible excipients that have been used in the manufacture of tablets by direct compression method, with particular emphasis on what...
The processing of drug with excipients can be achieved without any need of granulation and related unit operations. By simply mixing in a blender, formulation ingredients...
Granulation is an important unit operation in which fine powder particles are made to adhere to form larger agglomerates called granules. The process is designed to...
Dry granulation also referred to as precompression or double compression is a size enlargement process designed to improve the flow and compression characteristics of powders that...
Wet granulation is the process of size enlargement in which a liquid is added to a powder with agitation to produce agglomeration or granules. It is...
Granulation is a unit operation in which small powder particles are gathered together to form agglomerates called granules. To achieve cohesion between the powders, it is...
The design and manufacture of pharmaceutical tablets is a complex multi-stage process whereby formulation scientists ensure that the correct amount of drug substance in the right...
Drug products usually contain inactive, non-medicinal substances other than the therapeutic agent(s). These substances are called excipients, and they are intentionally included in a drug product...
Tablets are solid dose pharmaceutical preparation containing drug substances usually prepared with the aid of suitable pharmaceutical excipients. They may vary in size, shape, weight, hardness,...
Dosage forms are believed to be as old as man himself, though doubts about the “measures” used by early man in quantifying these formulations never ceased...
Starch is a naturally occurring polysaccharide polymeric material that is widely present in cytoplasm of the plant cells found in fruit, root, pedicle, and leaves as...
Plastic packaging systems define a set of packaging materials that are composed wholly or in substantial portion of plastic materials which contain or is intended to...
