Dosage Forms

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

Articles

PAT holds the key to real-time quality assurance and consistent product quality in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Unlocking the Vast Potential of PAT in Solid-Dosage Manufacturing

Jyoti Mundlia is research scholar at PDM College of Pharmacy, Bahadurgarh, India

Rakesh Kumar Marwaha is associate professor at Maharshi Dayanand University's Department of Pharmacy

Box-Behnken modeling was used to optimize a resinate complex, to mask the taste of levocetirizine dihydrochloride and montelukast sodium in orally disintegrating tablets.

Using a Dual-Drug Resinate Complex for Taste Masking

Appropriate feeding equipment can be selected to meet the challenges of dosing powders that are sticky or do not flow well.

Handling Difficult Powders in Solid-Dosage Manufacturing

Jennifer Markarian is manufacturing reporter for Pharmaceutical Technology.

Economic benefits, equipment availability, research results, and FDA support are driving progress in continuous processing.

Advancing Continuous Solid-Dosage Manufacturing

Doug Kirsch is Technical Service Manager at Natoli Engineering Company. www.natoli.com

Adjusting the tablet press and its systems can prevent manufacturing and product quality problems.

Fixing Tableting Problems

A core coating module allows Roeltgen's FlexiTab development and small-batch tablet press to manufacture multi-layer and externally lubricated tablets.

Core Coating Module Expands Capability of Tablet Press

Cynthia A. Challener is a contributing editor to Pharmaceutical Technology.

Innovations for tablet tooling and presses improve quality and productivity.

Specialized Equipment Improves Tableting

Quality-by-design tools improve efficiency in scale-up of pharmaceutical processes.

Modernizing Scale-Up

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.

Engineering Research Center for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (ERC-SOPS), Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

M. Sebastian Escotet-Espinoza is a graduate research assistant at the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,

Sharmista Chatterjee is acting branch I chief/division 1 of process assessment/Office of Process and Facilities, at the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA.

Thomas O’Connor is chemical engineer, science staff at the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA.

Sau Lee is acting associate director for science at the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA.

Maitraye Sen is a graduate research assistant at the Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

In-silico design facilitates process optimization and evaluation of process control strategies.

Flowsheet Models Modernize Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Design and Risk Assessment

A drug-product manufacturing classification system (MCS) for oral solid-dosage forms is proposed by an Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences working group.

Solid/Semi-Solid Dosage