icleanse2loseweight.com » pharmaceuticals http://blog.icleanse2loseweight.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:22:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 GMP Consulting And The Medical Division http://blog.icleanse2loseweight.com/health-and-fitness/gmp-consulting-and-the-medical-division/ http://blog.icleanse2loseweight.com/health-and-fitness/gmp-consulting-and-the-medical-division/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:59:26 +0000 admin http://blog.icleanse2loseweight.com/health-and-fitness/gmp-consulting-and-the-medical-division/ Pharmaceutical companies which manufacture and distribute medicines and medical devices must ensure that they comply with current Good Manufacturing Practices or cGMP. The whole aim of GMP is to ensure a high standard of drug entering the market. As technology improves and research comes up with new drugs there are new pieces of legislation brought into cGMP. Without GMP consulting it would be impossible for any pharmacy business to stay in line with cGMP.

A business has two choices; it can employ an in-house GMP consultant whose sole responsibility is to stay up to date with cGMP, or they can hire an independent consultant on a biannual basis. There are many factors which make the latter choice the better one.

The money you spend on an independent consultant is lower than the salary you would have to pay a full time employee. You will only need between two and four consultancy meetings per year unless there are major developments. If you were to permanently hire someone you are looking at an average salary of

]]> http://blog.icleanse2loseweight.com/health-and-fitness/gmp-consulting-and-the-medical-division/feed/ 0 GMP Consulting And Drug Processing http://blog.icleanse2loseweight.com/health-and-fitness/gmp-consulting-and-drug-processing/ http://blog.icleanse2loseweight.com/health-and-fitness/gmp-consulting-and-drug-processing/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:48:39 +0000 admin http://blog.icleanse2loseweight.com/gmp-consulting-and-drug-processing/ In drug production, excipients are used to hold the active ingredient (API) and make the products easier to handle. This is important if the active ingredient (API) is extremely potent and needs to be given in an accurate dosage, or if the API needs to be mixed with the excipient so that it can be absorbed into the human body. Both oral tablets and rectal suppositories use excipients. Excipients are considered to be a trade secret as they can keep the API active and thus prolonging the shelf life of the medicine making it competitive on the market.

GMP consulting can be used as to the best colour, lubricant and flavourings among other factors to be added to the product in order to make it more effective and appealing. It can help you to distinguish your product from other competitors on the market and make your manufacturing processes more cost and waste effective.

Having a signature colour for your product can make it stand out from other drugs. It also makes it easier to identify your medicine by health care professionals and patients.

You can use flavourings to make your drugs taste better, like using a cherry flavouring in bitter products. You can also mask sour and salty flavours by using raspberry and apricots respectively.

Giving a longer shelf life to drugs is done by using preservatives. Synthetic preservatives like parabens can be used. If you want to use a natural substance, popular choices include vitamins A, E and C as well as citric acid.

Minerals like talc and fats such as vegetable fats are used as lubricants in tablets and hard gel capsules.They reduce waste by preventing ingredients from clumping together or sticking to the machinery.

Fillers make tablets and capsules easier for patients to handle and the manufacture process more practical. The ingredients used in fillers need to be pretty tasteless, compatible with the other ingredients in the medicine and relatively cheap.

These are just some of the factors that excipients need to fill.GMP consulting helps companies to decide which ingredients are best to use for them and make sure there is no over lapping with their competitors.This makes products safe for human use as well as competitive as tests are done to make sure the excipient ingredients are compatible with the API.

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