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During a webinar about capsule filling last year, I asked attendees to choose the most prevalent problem they faced operating their capsule filling process. As Figure 1 shows, the audience—comprising ... read more

As pharmaceutical manufacturers seek to fill dwindling pipelines, they are developing new chemistries that are sometimes difficult to stabilize over the desired shelf life. Traditional moisture ... read more

After tablets, hard capsules are the pharmaceutical industry’s most widely used dosage delivery method. Most capsules are made of gelatin or hypromellose (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, or HPMC), and ... read more

Liquid fills can deliver active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that are otherwise difficult or impossible to deliver via other solid dosage forms. That has led many research and development ... read more

Manufacturers face several challenges when compressing nutraceutical tablets, many of which are unrefined natural ingredients that are abrasive, corrosive, and/or coarse. It’s thus important to ... read more

Many of the early papers that addressed capsules made from hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), or hypromellose, stated that they didn’t lose their mechanical properties with a reduction in moisture ... read more

Never have so many drug delivery systems based on hard capsules been available to pharmaceutical manufacturers and physicians. Today, they can choose from a variety of options to achieve immediate, ... read more

When I began organizing CDMOs into a nonprofit trade association three years ago, I didn’t expect that my short-form response to, “What do you do for a living?” would be, “I’m a lobbyist for the ... read more