Study of coat quality of tablets coated by an on-line supercell coater

AAPS PharmSciTech

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Tang, Elaine S K ^a   Liew, Celine V ^a   Er, Dawn Z L ^a   Liu, Xiaohua ^a   Wigmore, Anthony J ^b   Heng, Paul W S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b GEA Aeromatic Fielder   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coat quality; Coating; On line coating; Tablet

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG COATING; DRUG SOLUBILITY; FILM COATING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPRAY DRYING; TABLET MANUFACTURE; TABLET SURFACE; TABLET THICKNESS; WETTABILITY; COLOR; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHARMACEUTICS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TABLET;

COLOR; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TABLETS; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 34548215824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15309932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1208/pt0803063     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Ohmori S, Ohno Y, Makino T, Kashihara T. Development and evaluation of the tablets coated with the novel formulation termed thin-layer sugarless coated tablets. Int J Pharm. 2004;278: 459-469.
2. Ohmori S, Ohno Y, Makino T, Kashihara T. Application of an electronic nose system for evaluation of unpleasant odor in coated tablets. Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 2005;59:289-297.
3. Cerea M, Zheng W, Young CR, McGinity JW. A novel powder coating process for attaining taste masking and moisture protective films applied to tablets. Int J Pharm. 2004;279:127-139.
4. Béchard SR, Quraishi O, Kwong E. Film coating: effect of titanium dioxide concentration and film thickness on the photostability of nifedipine. Int J Pharm. 1992;87:133-139.
5. Wilson PJ, Basit AW, Exploiting gastrointestinal bacteria to target drugs to the colon: an in vitro study using amylose coated tablets. Int J Pharm. 2005;300:89-94.
6. Cole GC. Introduction and overview of pharmaceutical coating. In: Cole G, ed. Pharmaceutical Coating Technology. London: Taylor & Francis; 1995:1-5.
7. Thoma K, Bechtold K. Influence of aqueous coatings on the stability of enteric coated pellets and tablets. Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 1999;47:39-50.
8. Rowe RC. Defects in aqueous film coated tablets. In: McGinity JW, ed. Aqueous Polymeric coatings for pharmaceutical dosage forms. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Dekker; 1997:419-440.
9. Achanta AS, Sdusumilli PS, James KW, Rhodes CT. Development of hot melt coating methods. Drug Dev Ind Pharm. 1997;23: 441-449.
10. Obara S, Maruyama N, Nishiyama Y, Kokubo H. Dry coating: an innovative enteric coating method using a cellulose derivative. Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 1999;47:51-59.
11. Cerea M, Zheng W, Young CR, McGinity JW. A novel powder coating process for attaining taste masking and moisture protective films applied to tablets. Int J Pharm. 2004;279:127-139.
12. Walter KT, Neidlinger AM, inventors. Aeromatic-Fielder AG (Bubendorf, CH), assignee. Apparatus for coating tablets. US Patent 6 209 479. April 3, 2001.
13. Birkmire AP, Liew CV. An accurate method of coating tablets with active pharmaceutical ingredients. Paper presented at: 5th European Coating Symposium 2003 Proceedings; September 17-19, 2003; Fribourg, Switzerland. 2003:279-284.
14. Birkmire AP, Walter KT, Liew CV, Tang ESK. Tablet coating in the novel SUPERCELL™ Coater: Evaluation of color uniformity [abstract]. AAPSJ [serial online]. 2004;S1:Abstract W4138.
15. Cunningham C, Neely C, Kevra A, Birkmire A. Investigation of a new coating process for the application of enteric coatings to small batch sizes [abstract]. AAPSJ [serial online]. 2005;S2:Abstract T3201.
16. Chan LW, Chan WY, Heng PWS. An improved method for the measurement of color uniformity in pellet coating. Int J Pharm. 2001;213:63-74.