Dosage Forms

Can hot-melt coating reduced processing times and costs, and improve taste?

Developing a drug that hits a given target is one thing. Making sure it reaches the target is another.

Six Sigma has the potential to deliver real cost savings by improving productivity and reducing defects, but making the change is challenging.

An art gallery at Pharmapack showcased the artistic side of primary drug packaging

The Morphologi G3-ID can be used to compare the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) within oral solid dose formualtions. Here we apply it to comparing innovator and generic versions of a product containing two APIs.

Is your viscometer approaching the end of its life? Are you starting to feel that your trial and error, ‘rheology-light’ approach to formulation is becoming dated? Or are there longstanding product performance issues that you’re failing to gain traction with, where you suspect rheology may hold the answer? 

Dry powder inhalers are accepted as being complex drug products due to the interactions which occur between the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and excipients within the formulation and the way this then affects the efficiency of drug delivery by the inhaler device. Obtaining component specific particle size and particle shape distribution data can help with understanding the properties of the formulation as part of formulation or deformulation studies. This application note describes how the combination of automated image analysis with Raman spectroscopy in the Morphologi G3-ID allows the individual components present within a dry powder inhaler formulations to be independently characterized and compared.

Learn how to use DSC to screen for physical stability of proteins in solution.

Tablets are the most common dosage form, but have you considered all of your options?

This article explains how an inline probe was used to monitor a granulation at three different scales to confirm that, in each case, the granules produced were the same size, and more importantly produced tablets of identical quality as quantified by hardness.