The development of an efficient dosage form is usually a long and complex process that involves a lot of capital and teamwork from different disciplines.…
1. Mesopotamia (current Iraq and Iran) 2600BC They were the first to put medicinal knowledge into writing and so were regarded as the forerunner of the…
Glass containers are among the primary packaging material that has found use in the pharmaceutical industries.  A large number of pharmaceutical formulations have been packaged using…
Pharmacy is a noble profession which offers various opportunities to students upon graduation. Professional world differ greatly from the university life and as a young…
Having been in community practice for quite some time, I have come to realize that packaging of pharmaceutical products is a production process which every drug…
At the end of every drug formulation process, drugs are usually protected against biological contamination and all adverse external factors like moisture, light, oxygen, mechanical…
Pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria have come a long way despite the various challenges facing the pharmaceutical sector. The journey to drug manufacturing started in Nigeria…
Solid dosage form refers essentially to pharmaceutical drug products in the form of tablets, capsules, powders, granules, lozenges, and suppositories containing an active drug component…
In every emerging drug manufacturing industry or an already existing one, there is always a need to have an intermediate batch scale representing procedures and…
Pilot plant scale-up techniques involve reproducible manufacture of an experimental formulation on high-speed production equipment, in a cost-effective manner. It is a part of the…
While deciding on how the layout of your pharmaceutical plant would look like, there is need to evaluate some factors which at different degrees influence your layout…
An important factor to consider in addition to the factors that affect your choice of pharmaceutical plant location is finance. As an entrepreneur, you need…
Encapsulators, also called capsule fillers, capsule filling machines or encapsulation machines are mechanical devices commonly used for industrial and pharmaceutical purposes. These machines are used…
Rotary tablet press is a mechanical device that unlike the single punch tablet press has several tooling station which rotates to compress granules/powder mixture into…
Single punch tablet press also called eccentric press or single station press is the simplest machine for tablet manufacturing. Single punch tablet as the name…
