Industrial Pharmacy 1 - Unit 4

Syllabus

Parenteral Products:

• Definition, types, advantages and limitations. Preformulation factors and essential requirements, vehicles, additives, importance of isotonicity
• Production procedure, production facilities and controls, aseptic processing
• Formulation of injections, sterile powders, large volume parenterals and lyophilized products.
• Containers and closures selection, filling and sealing of ampoules, vials and infusion fluids. Quality control tests of parenteral products.

Ophthalmic Preparations:

Introduction, formulation considerations; formulation of eye drops, eye ointments and eye lotions; methods of preparation; labeling, containers; evaluation of ophthalmic preparations