what are the types of pharmaceutical raw materials?
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What Are The Types Of Pharmaceutical Raw Materials?
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What is Pharmaceutical Raw Materials?
Pharmaceutical industry has a lot of constraints and specialties which make it stand on a completely different scale than any other industries. Being closely related to the medical field and also complementary to it, the pharmaceutical industry needs utmost care and precision in each and every aspect of the field ranging from collecting the raw materials to getting the final product ready for supply in the market.
Let us get into a few details about the pharmaceutical raw materials and find out some important and interesting facts about them.
The raw materials used in the pharmaceutical industry are categorized into 3 major types. They are: Raw Materials of Excipients Raw Materials of API Raw Materials of Packaging
Raw Materials – Categorization
Anyone with a good touch in the pharmaceutical industry will be very much familiar with all these categories. This categorization will clearly distinct the materials from each other and also make it possible for us to have a clear line of distinction between the materials that can be handled separately. Also, these pharmaceutical raw materials are generally supplied to the pharmaceutical manufacturing industries category wise to be sure of the materials being used and produced.
Raw Materials – Categorization
Excipients are also called drug carriers. They are the carrier materials and are definitely part of any drug. It is a commonly known fact that the drugs we use contain only a very tiny part of actual drug that effects the bodily changes. The remaining part is only a carrier which we call the excipient in pharma terms.
Pharmaceutical Raw Materials Of Excipients
The pharmaceutical raw materials used for excipients include solvents and other carriers which are capable of carrying the actual drug. This excipient should not affect the chemical features of the API. Guidelines for a material to qualify as an excipient are formulated and proposed by the international pharmaceutical standards.
Pharmaceutical Raw Materials Of Excipients
API refers to Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. This is the actual part of the drug that is responsible for the drug action. Precision and accuracy are a must for the raw materials used for making the API.
Pharmaceutical Raw materials of API
Any small deviation in the composition can lead to drastic loss to the pharmaceutical industry. This is the raw material that has to be dealt with the most care and concern. The pharmaceutical industries’ R&D plays an important role in choosing the proper API raw materials.
Pharmaceutical Raw materials of API
Even the packaging in the pharmaceutical industry have to be prefect and precise. Raw materials used for pharmaceutical packaging include plastic & polymers, glass, paper, aluminum foil and paper boards etc. These are used in making most of the packaging used in pharma. Because of the diversified products being used as raw materials, even packaging is made a separate category.
Pharmaceutical Raw Materials Of Packaging
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