Syllabus - Pharmaceutical Technology (CM-503 (C))

Unit Operation in Pharmaceutical Industries

working principle of evaporation, distillation, drying, mixing, size reduction, crystallization, filtration, size separation, conveying, humidification, air conditioning and refrigeration equipments

Introduction to pharmaceutical laws and regulation

Formulation, development of sterile dosage forms. Production facilities, environmental control and personnel in the production of sterile dosage form, compounding, processing, filtration, sealing, sterilization, packing and labeling of sterile dosage forms. Quality control tests like sterility, pyrogen, clarify, safety and leakage testing.

Tablets and Capsules

Types of tablets. Manufacturing of tablets by wet granulation, dry granulation and direct compression. Tablet processing problems and defects, tablet standardization: hardness, friability, weights variation, disintegration, dissolution and content uniformity tests. Capsules: Hard gelatin capsule, capsule size, formulation and preparation of filled hard gelatin capsules, soft gelatin capsule, soft gel - manufacturing procedures; quality control of capsules.

Cosmetics and Toiletries

Introduction, factors to be considered in the formulation of facial cosmetics, dentifrices, deodorant, antiperspirants, shampoos, hairdressing and hair removers.

Pharmaceutical packing

packing components, types of packing containers and closures, materials used for and their pharmaceutical specification, method of evaluation, stability aspects of packaging materials.