Pharmaceutical Technology-10-01-2001

The authors provide an overview of formulating latex dispersions with pigments for the film coating of solid dosage forms, including factors such as regulation, methods for assessing stability, and surface chemistry.

Tablet manufacturers often overlook critical basic concepts or established practices. The author draws from his own experiences and discusses how solid dosage manufacturers can improve production and product quality by optimizing major unit operations.

The authors modified a three-layer press to operate a compression-coated tablet process that may offer several advantages over tradditional compression coating operations.