International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of India (IPEC India) has rolled out a series of webinars on lipid excipients and innovations in pharmaceutical coating technology in the month of July and August 2021.

The webinar in the month of July 2021 will highlight Innovations in Pharmaceutical Coating Technology – A way to address industry challenges by Prashant Thakker, Formulation Technologies Manager, Colorcon Asia Pvt Ltd on July 16, 2021. In the pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement industries, film coating is considered preferred method to provide product differentiation, patient adherence and support tablet performance characteristics. The film coating technology is an evolving science and last 20 years have seen major advances in the use of polymeric excipients for film coatings.

This presentation will look at various challenges faced by the industry in terms of improving stability of drug product, coating process time reduction, defect elimination, swallowability enhancement, product authentication as well as a need to adapt to recent technology trend of continuous manufacturing and a dynamic regulatory environment to see how the coating technology innovations help overcome these challenges.

The webinar in the month of August would discuss Excipients for Long Acting Drug Delivery and Solubility Enhancement by Dr. Ankitkumar S Jain, Manager, Technical Services and Application, Lubrizol Life Science, Health on August 5, 2021. Carbopol polymers are now increasingly being chosen for oral solid dose formulations because of their unique benefits. The talk will include Carbopol polymer chemistry, drug release mechanism, formulation processing aspects as well as case studies depicting unique value proposition of

Carbopol polymers in oral controlled release formulations. The webinar will also disclose basic details and case studies of new range of novel excipient/s mainly intended to be used in amorphous solid dispersion and solubility enhancement for oral drug delivery.

Interested participants can register and participate (Write in to admin@ipecindia.org) in the webinars and enhance knowledge through the discussions by industry experts.

IPEC India established in 2014 as the Indian Affiliate of the International body IPEC Federation has the key concept to synergize connect between regulators and excipient users.

IPEC India’s vision is to develop to be a well-recognized independent association effectively creating awareness in GMP, GLP among excipient users and manufacturers also to bridging the gap between government and non-government bodies, the gaps between existing regulation and the next one to go for improvement, harmonizing the gaps of standards and regulations between local and global.