Dosage Forms

Adeline Siew is editor for Pharmaceutical Technology Europe. She is also science editor for Pharmaceutical Technology.

Articles

Principles of dissolution testing, including method development and testing apparatus, are reviewed.

Factors to Consider in Dissolution Testing

FDA and BARDA awarded a contract to Continuus Pharmaceuticals to develop an end-to-end continuous manufacturing process for solid-dosage drugs.

Continuus Pharmaceuticals Partners with FDA and BARDA

Martin KÃ¶berle, PhD, is head of Analytical Development &Stability Testing, at Hermes Pharma.

Detlev Haack, PhD, is head of Research & Development at Hermes Pharma.

Hot-melt coating was used to develop taste-masked orally disintegrating granules of acetaminophen and caffeine.

From Bitter to Sweet: Developing a User-Friendly Painkiller

Catalent adds two softgel facilities and packaging capabilities with acquisition of Canada-based Accucaps.

Catalent Expands Softgel Capacity with Accucaps Acquisition

Elizabeth Rivera is a technical services manager at the Life Sciences Division of STERIS Corporation.

Paul Lopolito is a technical services specialist at STERIS, Mentor, OH.

A lifecycle approach can be used to develop GMP-compliant cleaning procedures for continuous manufacturing of solid-dosage pharmaceuticals.

Cleaning Validation in Continuous Manufacturing

Fernando J. Muzzio, PhD, is a professor and the director of the pharmaceutical engineering program at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 98 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058, tel. 732.445.3357.

C-SOPS, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Shear-sensitive ingredients in a tableting formulation experience different conditions in a batch tumble blender than they would in a continuous paddle blender.

Lubrication in Continuous Tubular Powder Blenders

A dissolution method should have adequate discriminatory power to detect formulation changes that affect the dissolution rate of a drug product.

Dissolution Testing

Sharon Nowak is Global Business Development Manager for the food and pharmaceutical industries, K-Tron (Schweiz) AG.

Designing loss-in-weight feeders for accurate and consistent refill is crucial to a continuous solid-dosage process.

Improving Feeder Performance in Continuous Pharmaceutical Operations

Excipients play a crucial role in the manufacturing of solid-dosage forms and the performance of the finished drug product.

Excipients for Formulation Success

Three-dimensional (3D) printing, which is a type of additive manufacturing (AM), enables fabrication of specialty drugs and medical devices, said Emil Ciurczak, Doramaxx Consulting and CPhI expert panel member, in the 2016 CPhI Annual Industry Report.

Solid/Semi-Solid Dosage