A PRACTICAL BOOK OF INDUSTRIAL PHARMACY – 1

The current curriculum implemented by Pharmacy Council of India New Delhi as Regulation 2014 has practical Industrial Pharmacy – I subject at Semester-V of Third Year of the B. Pharm. course.

This practical book covers whole of the experimental component specified in the syllabus. The book has been divided in to six main chapters covering different pharmaceutical dosage forms like tablets, capsules, injections, eye drops, eye ointment and creams. Authors have made special attempts to cover all aspects ranging from preformulation studies, dosage form design, product manufacturing processes to facility design and management, packaging, evaluation, quality control and regulation.

This entire book has 13 experiments and each experiment is provided with the list of chemicals and equipments under requirements section. Every experiment is supplemented with theory/principle and its objectives.

Efforts have been made to elaborate basic concepts of pharmaceutical manufacturing and are supported with flow diagrams, figures, equations and data tables.

Each experiment is concluded with the necessary result to understand the appropriate outcome after completion. At the end of each experiment, review questions are given that well help the students to assess the knowledge gained after doing a particular experiment.