Three-dimensional (3D) printing is drastically redefining medicine production, offering digital precision and personalized design opportunities. One emerging 3D printing technology is selective laser sintering (SLS), which is garnering…

The time taken by the tablet to break down into fragments or granules is called disintegration. The time it takes for a batch of tablets to dissolve into particles under certain circumstances is called a disintegration test. It essentially…

Abstract The 3–dimensional printing process (3DP) was patented in the 1980s, but the utilization of this process has expanded substantially over the past decade, to which the pharmaceutical industry is a major contributor. With increasing…

In 2019, France made the decision to completely ban TiO2 in the nutraceutical sector from January 1, 2020. Now, the EFSA panel concluded, that E171 (TiO2) can no longer be considered as safe when used as a food additive in Europe on the…

A large number of dietary supplements are available in solid oral dosage forms. Vitamin and mineral supplements can be easily pressed into tablets by wet granulation or direct compression, but such tablet formulations require good binders.…

A range of enteric polymers is used in pharmaceutical industry for developing gastro-resistant formulations. It is generally implied that these coatings are interchangeable due to similar dissolution pH thresholds reported by suppliers.…

France will ban Titanium dioxide as an additive in food in France from January 1, 2020, the Ministries of Ecology and Economy have said. The government has decided to ban "as a precaution" foodstuffs containing titanium dioxide (TiO2, an…