Kalpesh Sawant work in Integrated Product Development at CIPLA.

Kalpesh Sawant

Soft gelatin capsules (SGC) are popularly used pharmaceutical dosage forms, whose critical quality attributes are efficient opening/rupture, disintegration, and dissolution. Unlike oral capsules, however, rectal capsules must dissolve in minimal fluid and hydrodynamics, without digestive enzymes to break down the crosslinking of gelatin if any. Therefore, a reliable biomimetic method is needed to characterize SGC rupture/disintegration during rectal administration. This article demonstrates how qualitative physical attributes testing, a method that has recently been approved for use by the World Health Organization, can be used to achieve these goals.

	Submitted: Sept. 4, 2018
	Accepted: Oct. 16, 2018

, yasvanth.ashokraj@cipla.com, Swati Laud, Kalpesh Sawant, Prashant Modak, and Praveen Date all work in Integrated Product Development at CIPLA.

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	Vol. 43, No. 1
	January 2019
	Pages: 41–45

	When referring to this article, please cite it as Y. Ashokraj et al., “Evaluating a New Quality Control Test for Soft Gelatin Rectal Capsules,” 

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This article demonstrates how qualitative physical attributes testing can be used to characterize soft gel capsule rupture/disintegration during rectal administration.