Articles in this Issue

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  Tablet Coating: Improving Cost Efficiency and Flexibility in Tablet Coating Processes

  April 11, 2019
  To succeed in today’s demanding pharmaceutical manufacturing environment, a tablet coating process must be as efficient as possible. This means that each step or aspect of the coating process must be optimized to suit the requirements of the specific... read more
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  Delivering Solutions: How Film-Coating Technology is Addressing Modern Pharmaceutical Industry...

  April 11, 2019
  Film-coating technology has undergone a steady evolution over the last half century. At the beginning, film coating was limited to some extent by the need to rely on the use of organic solvents. However, beginning in the late 1970s, technological ... read more
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  Industry Helping Industry: The Clean Label Alliance and the Future of clean Label

  April 11, 2019
  About 80 percent of US consumers want to know which ingredients are in the products they consume, according to the 2018 Supplements/OTC/Rx Trends Database (SORD) report . Additionally, a survey commissioned by Lonza and carried out by the Natural ... read more
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  Regulatory Compliance: Complying with New FDA Requirements for Dietary Supplement Nutrition...

  April 11, 2019
  In May 2016, the FDA published two final rules about nutrition labeling, one focused on revisions to food and supplement nutrition labeling requirements (21 CFR 101.9 and 101.36) [1, 2], and the other focused on serving sizes of foods that can ... read more
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  Eye on Excipients: Softgel Capsule Formulation

  April 11, 2019
  Soft gelatin capsules (softgels) are an important dosage form option for pharmaceutical manufacturers because many patients prefer them over other solid oral dosage forms and perceive them as easy to swallow, which leads to improved patient ... read more
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  Recent In Vitro Release Testing Activities, Including FDA and USP

  April 11, 2019
  The FDA, USP, and the dissolution testing community have been very active in providing increased guidance for tablet and capsule dissolution. The areas specifically include immediate-release dosage forms, disintegration, capsules, split tablets, ... read more