Articles in this Issue

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  Tablet Coating: Basic Batch Coater Operating Parameters and Setup

  April 12, 2018
  Film coating is a widely used process in tablet manufacturing. Applying a clear or colored aqueous or solvent-based coating can improve a pharmaceutical tablet’s appearance, taste, and/or swallowability; make it stronger or easier to handle; or ... read more
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  Tablet Coating: Optimizing Coating Solution Delivery System and Single-Tube Coriolis Flow Meter...

  April 12, 2018
  A single-tube Coriolis flow meter is a cylindrical device that’s mounted inline on a tablet coating system’s solution supply tube. The flow meter monitors the coating solution flowrate and directly or indirectly sends the data to the coating pump ... read more
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  Taste Masking Minitablets Using a Drum Coater

  April 16, 2020
  A minitablet is generally a round tablet with a flat or slightly convex face and a diameter between 1.0 and 3.0 millimeters. Minitablets are usually filled into a capsule, but they are also occasionally compressed into larger tablets or placed in ... read more
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  Outsourcing: The Importance of Quality Agreements for Dietary Supplement Manufacture

  April 12, 2018
  Many dietary supplement products are manufactured by a contract manufacturer, packaged by a contract packager, tested by a contract laboratory, and distributed by a contract distributor. To ensure product quality and safety, each facility involved ... read more
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  Eye on Excipients: Using Isomalt as a Carrier for Liquid APIs

  April 12, 2018
  Many active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be formulated into either liquid or solid oral dosage forms. A major advantage of liquid dosage forms is that the API is already dissolved and generally absorbs more quickly in vivo. Solid dosage ... read more
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  The Evolution of Coating Technology

  April 12, 2018
  Pan coating is one of the oldest pharmaceutical solid oral dosage manufacturing processes. The process was created for adding a sugar coating to compressed tablets primarily to mask the tablets’ unpleasant taste. An operator placed uncoated tablets ... read more