Tag: Tablets

Effervescent tablets are uncoated tablet preparations containing mixtures of medicinal agents with acid substances and carbonates or hydrogen carbonates, which ...

Medicated chewing gums (MCGs) are solid or semi-solid, single-dose preparations with a base consisting mainly of tasteless masticatory gums that ...

Quality control (QC) is a part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements. It refers to the set of ...

Chewable tablets are tablets intended to be chewed in the mouth prior to swallowing. They represent the largest market segment ...

An enteric coating, also known as gastro-resistant coating is a barrier applied to oral medication that controls the location in ...

Polymeric film coating, in the formal sense, is a process that has been extensively used in pharmaceutical companies for over ...

Coating is a process by which an essentially dry outer layer of coating material is applied to the surface of ...

Film coating is a contemporary and widely used process for coating oral solid dosage forms in the pharmaceutical industry. It ...

Tablet coating is a process by which an essentially dry, outer layer of coating material is applied to the surface ...

Tablets are solid drug delivery system prepared by compressing a single dose of one or more active drug substance(s) with ...

In-process quality control tests are simply routine checks that are performed during production. They are those tests carried out before ...

The processing of drug with excipients can be achieved without any need of granulation and related unit operations. By simply ...

Dry granulation also referred to as precompression or double compression is a size enlargement process designed to improve the flow ...

Wet granulation is the process of size enlargement in which a liquid is added to a powder with agitation to ...

Granulation is a unit operation in which small powder particles are gathered together to form agglomerates called granules. To achieve ...

The design and manufacture of pharmaceutical tablets is a complex multi-stage process whereby formulation scientists ensure that the correct amount ...

Drug products usually contain inactive, non-medicinal substances other than the therapeutic agent(s). These substances are called excipients, and they are ...

Tablets are solid dose pharmaceutical preparation containing drug substances usually prepared with the aid of suitable pharmaceutical excipients. They may ...