Developing a solid oral dosage form in today’s market can be challenging. There are many pressures to discover new entities and maximize the lifecycle of products while maintaining safety, cost-effectiveness, and speed to market.
Tablets are almost certainly the most cost-effective and efficient form of dispensing medicines. The tablet provides a versatile, compact, robust and accurate platform for drug delivery. While the functional versatility of the tablet as a dosage form has been appreciated for decades, the design versatility of the tablet has historically been underappreciated. A variety of shapes can provide distinction without compromising manufacturing requirements.
Film coating systems provide:
- Protection of the dose as well as the opportunity to apply color
- Distinctive markings can be included to the surface of the tablet
- Added patient safety benefit is the film coated tablet has been shown to be the easiest form to swallow and the least likely to be arrested in the esophagus
Good design not only helps eliminate many of the common manufacturing issues like picking, sticking, and capping but ensures optimum productivity and aids in:
- Patient/consumer brand identity
- Medication error reduction
- Enhanced patient benefits through improved swallowability and ease of handling
- Increased trademark potential, through a unique tablet shape, color, and logo/imprint code combinations
Through the expertise of Colorcon’s Brand Enhancement System for Tablets, BEST®, we are able to provide you the necessary tools to help you design a tablet that will meet your technical, regulatory, production, marketing, branding, and corporate needs.
Contact Colorcon®, and put all the BEST advantages to work for you to create a solid pharmaceutical dosage form that is unique, potentially trademarkable and easily identifiable.
