Method for treatment of solid pharmaceutical preparation prior to printing and solid pharmaceutical preparation subjected to treatment prior to printing

a technology of solid pharmaceutical preparation and treatment method, which is applied in the direction of pharmaceutical product form change, colloidal chemistry, coatings, etc., can solve the problems of reducing the commercial value, reducing the product yield, and affecting the identification function, so as to improve the abrasion resistance of print and/or printability, and improve the effect of the abrasion resistan

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-05-24
TAKEDA PHARMA CO LTD
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Benefits of technology

[0005] It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method of polishing a solid dosage form without using an organic solvent, which can improve and abrasion resistance of a print and printability of the solid dosage form, and a solid dosage form improved in the abrasion resistance of a print and / or printability based on the method.

Problems solved by technology

Moreover, the use of a suspension and a powder may cause non-uniform coating, possibly leading to inconvenience.
Furthermore, polishing with a wax prior to printing may cause easy scratch of prints and stain of the preparation itself as well as containers, which in turn impairs identification function and also reduces the commercial value due to the defective appearance.
In addition, some kind of wax provides too much polish that can cause printing failure, and decrease the product yield (e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 4,456,629 (column 1, lines 34-39)).

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example 1

Reference Example

Production of Film-coated Tablet Formulation (Unit: mg)

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plain tablet130.0(containing 4 mg of active ingredient)hydroxypropylmethylcellulose3.74 (74.8%)(TC-5; trademark)copolyvidon0.75 (15.0%)titanium oxide 0.5 (10.0%)yellow ferric oxide0.01 (0.2%) total135.0

[0072] Plain tablets were placed in a coating machine (Driacoater (Powrex Corporation) or Hicoater (Freund Corporation)), a film coating liquid containing TC-5, copolyvidon, titanium oxide and yellow ferric oxide at the above-mentioned weight ratios was sprayed with a spray nozzle while rotating the pan, and the tablets were dried by heated air supplied. This operation was repeated until the above-mentioned coating weight was achieved.

example 2

[0073] Pre-printing Treatment with Polyethylene Glycol-containing Aqueous Solution Formulation (Unit: mg)

Prepar. Ex. 1Prepar. Ex. 2Comp. Ex.film-coated tablet135.0135.0135.0(Reference Example)MACROGOL 40000.1(the Japan Pharmacopoeia)MACROGOL 60000.1(the Japan Pharmacopoeia)water(0.9)(0.9)carnauba wax0.008sorbitan mono-oleate0.04n-hexane(0.9625)

[0074] The film-coated tablets (6,000 tablets, 810 g) obtained in the above-mentioned Reference Example were placed in a Hicoater (Freund Corporation), and a 10 wt % aqueous solution of MACROGOL 4000 (the Japan Pharmacopoeia; molecular weight 2,600-3,800) (Preparation Example 1) or MACROGOL 6000 (the Japan Pharmacopoeia; molecular weight 7,300-9,300) (Preparation Example 2) in total 6.0 g, or a 0.79 wt % carnauba wax n-hexane solution (Comparative Example) in total 6.063 g was sprayed with a spray nozzle while rotating the pan to give respective tablets having the above-mentioned formulations.

[0075] The above-mentioned respective tablets we...

example 3

Experimental Example

Test of Print Abrasion Resistance of and Printing Failure Rate

[0076] The three kinds of tablets (500 tablets each) obtained in the above-mentioned Example 2 were visually observed to examine printing failure, and 100 tablets each were placed in 3K glass bottles, which were shaken at amplitude 40 mm, shaking speed 250 times / minute in a reciprocal shaker SR-IIw (Nihon Medical and Chemical instruments Co., Ltd.) to observe the level of abrasion of the print over time. The results are shown in Table 1.

TABLE 1Comp. Ex.Prep. Ex. 1Prep. Ex. 2appear-number of500500500ancetesttabletsClass D000(%)1)Class C000(%)Class Bin-2.000(%)completeprintprinting1.41.20.8staintotal3.41.20.8abrasion10 minprint isno change (±)no change (±)property2)scratchy,wholetablet isstained (+)30 minprint isprint isno change (±)scratchy,scratchy,wholewholetablet istablet isstained (++)stained (+)60 minprint isprint isprint isscratchy,scratchy,scratchy,wholewholewholetablet istablet istablet isst...

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Abstract

The present invention provides a method for treating a solid dosage form to improve the printability and abrasion resistance of a print to be produced on a surface of the solid dosage form, which includes treating the surface of the solid dosage form with a polyethylene glycol-containing aqueous solution before printing; a production method of a solid dosage form with a printed surface, which includes printing on the surface after the aforementioned treatment; and a solid dosage form having a print improved in abrasion resistance on its surface, which can be obtained by the aforementioned production method.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a method for treating a solid dosage form to improve the printability and abrasion resistance of a print to be produced on a surface of the solid dosage form, and a solid dosage form having improved abrasion resistance of a print or improved printability, which is afforded by the treatment. BACKGROUND ART [0002] There are many kinds of tablets and capsules that resemble one another in the size, color tone and shape. To identify each preparation, a company name, a company mark, a product name, ingredient contents and the like are often coded and directly imprinted on the preparation. For imprinting, engraving and printing are available. While engraving is employed for plain tablets free of coating, a subset of film-coated tablets and the like, printing is employed for many film-coated tablets, sugar-coated tablets, capsules and the like. [0003] For tablets and capsules, polishing with wax (in this specification, it means “wax” i...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61K9/28A61K9/24A61J3/00A61J3/06A61K9/44A61K47/34B41M3/00B41M5/00
CPCA61J3/007A61K9/2072A61K9/282B41M3/00B41M5/0011
Inventor MARUNAKA, SHIGEYUKIFUKUYAMA, HIKARUFUKADA, HIROSHISAITO, TOSHIHIDE
Owner TAKEDA PHARMA CO LTD
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