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Article: NIR spectroscopy--the key to the solid dosage form manufacturing process.(Cover story)
- Article from:
- Pharmaceutical Processing
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Solid dosage form manufacturing is one of the key pharmaceutical processes, and although the basic process has been around for generations it is often not fully understood or controlled enough to yield highly reliable product quality batch after batch.
Consequently, this process is often top of the priority list for process understanding, measurement and control activities by Pharma companies, usually as part of their PAT initiatives in both R&D and the manufacturing parts of the business.
This article will discuss, in overview, the integrated application of a single measurement tool, near infrared spectroscopy (NIR), across the breadth of the process ...