An Overview of Filmcoating Strategies and Technology
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Date: March 18, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Location: Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc.
Speaker: Heather Young, Area Technical Manager, Colorcon, Inc.
Presentation Summary
This discussion will focus on the basics of filmcoating and touch briefly on more in-depth topics. The introduction covers why a company would choose to filmcoat a tablet, which adds both cost to the final product, and complexity to the overall manufacturing process. Considerations for preparing a core tablet formulation for a filmcoating process include both tablet image (shape, size, logo) and excipient selection. As important as the core tablet is the selection of the correct film coating which encompasses the regulatory considerations for the intended markets, the desired aesthetic and functional performance characteristics of the film coating, and the tablet-filmcoating interactions that might lead a formulator to select one film coating over another. Finally, a brief discussion on the actual process of filmcoating will include equipment selection and use guidelines, basic trouble shooting, and optimization and scale up of the process from lab scale to a production basis.
About the Speaker
Heather Young is an Area Technical Manager for Colorcon based out of the Irvine, CA office. She has been working for Colorcon since July 2007, supporting a wide range of filmcoating and formulation projects for pharmaceutical and nutritional customers in the Western United States and British Columbia. Previously she worked at Merck for almost nine years supporting tech transfer, manufacturing, R&D, and capital project qualifications. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.
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