QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF INDOMETHACIN CAPSULES MARKETED BY BANGLADESHI PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES

Quality and Safety Assessment of Bangladeshi Pasteurized Milk

Background: Milk is considered as one of the highly nutritious food for human. This study was undertaken to evaluate the physicochemical as well as the microbial quality of pasteurized milk of different brands available in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Methods: Five types of branded pasteurized liquid milk were collected from retail markets of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Physicochemical analyses were ca...

Marketed Marine Natural Products in the Pharmaceutical and Cosmeceutical Industries: Tips for Success

The marine environment harbors a number of macro and micro organisms that have developed unique metabolic abilities to ensure their survival in diverse and hostile habitats, resulting in the biosynthesis of an array of secondary metabolites with specific activities. Several of these metabolites are high-value commercial products for the pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical industries. The aim of th...

Objective colour assessment and quality control in the chemical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries

Assessment of the quality of simvastatin capsules from compounding pharmacies.

OBJECTIVE To validate a method for determining the simvastatin content of compounded capsules, using high performance liquid chromatography. METHODS Eighteen samples of simvastatin 40 mg capsules from compounding pharmacies in the cities of São Paulo, Guarulhos, São Bernardo do Campo and Campinas, Southeastern Brazil, prescribed for fictitious patients were assessed. The analyses were based o...

Computer Vision-Based Quality Inspection System of Transparent Gelatin Capsules in Pharmaceutical Applications

Real-time quality inspection of gelatin capsules in pharmaceutical applications is an important issue from the point of view of industry productivity and competitiveness. Computer vision-based automatic quality inspection is one of the solutions to this problem. Machine vision systems provide quality control and real-time feedback for industrial processes, overcoming physical limitations and su...