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 can ...
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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 improve ...
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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 would ...
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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) is a Nigerian government agency that is fully empowered to regulate and control the manufacture, importation, ...
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The pharma industry traces its root from two sources; the first of these were local apothecaries that expanded from their traditional role of distributing botanical drugs such ...
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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 necessary ...
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Just as it is in other parts of the world, the history of pharmacy in Nigeria is old, though largely unrecorded. Medical knowledge was largely kept by ...
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Pharmacy refers to the health care related profession that deals with both the fields of health science as well as chemistry. It is defined as the profession ...
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Many a time I have seen young sales persons get frustrated on the job due to the increasing gap between the expected and reality in relation to ...
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From my experience, sourcing for the right pharmaceutical machines in China can be an overwhelming task. Many companies lose thousands of dollars when importing pharmaceutical machines. This ...
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The design and manufacture of pharmaceutical tablets is a complex multi-stage process whereby formulation scientists insure that the correct amount of drug substance in the right form ...
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A Fake drug is a drug product which is not what it purports to be. It is any drug product which is formulated or made to appear ...
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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 to ...
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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, thickness, ...
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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 to ...
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Pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria have come a long way despite the various challenges facing the pharmaceutical sector. These companies are up against several constraints, including challenges posed ...
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Finance is one of the major pillars of any organisation and an essential ingredient to a successful business. Nowadays, a finance department has a broad range of ...
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Owing to the numerous consequences of fake drug products, various methods have been devised for testing counterfeit drugs. The principal requirement for these methods is to identify ...
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