Avani Amin

Avani Amin, PhD, is principal and I/C director, both at the Institute of Pharmacy, Nirma University of Science and Technology, Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, tel. 91 02717 241900 to 04, fax 91 02717 241916.

The manufacture of orally dissolving films is done by various methods such as solvent casting, hot-melt extrusion, semisolid casting, solid-dispersion extrusion, and rolling. The authors discuss these methods and the various parameters in which dissolving films are evaluated.

The authors formulated and developed taste-masked RDFs of cetirizine hydrochloride for patients who experience difficulty in swallowing the tablet dosage form of the drug.