What does Colorcon do?
Colorcon is a world leader in the design and development of specialty excipients for solid oral dosages for the pharmaceutical and nutritional industries. We are committed to investing in enhanced dosage forms and advanced technology solutions.
What does Colorcon make?
Products. Colorcon® provides a wide range of pharmaceutical film coatings, excipients and formulation development assistance.
What industry is colorcon?
pharmaceutical industry
Thank you for your interest in Colorcon, Inc. Privately owned, Colorcon is the world leader in the development, supply and technical support of formulated coatings and excipients for the pharmaceutical industry.
What is an excipient ingredient?
An excipient is a substance formulated alongside the active ingredient of a medication, included for the purpose of long-term stabilization, bulking up solid formulations that contain potent active ingredients in small amounts (thus often referred to as “bulking agents”, “fillers”, or “diluents”), or to confer a …
Is colorcon public?
Colorcon develops and manufactures formulated film coating and excipients products for pharmaceutical and nutritional industries. Status: PrivateSubsidiary of BPSI Holdings Inc.
Are excipients harmful?
Children may be exposed to potentially harmful excipients, essential components of drug formulations, through unlicensed and off-label use of adult medicines. However, the excipients used in adult formulations may not be appropriate for paediatric patients, and therefore have the potential to lead to adverse effects.
What is the purpose of excipients?
The intended function of an excipient is to act as the carrier (vehicle or basis) or as a component of the carrier of the active substance(s) and, in so doing, to contribute to product attributes such as stability, biopharmaceutical profile, appearance and patient acceptability and to the ease with which the product …
What do excipients do?
Why are excipients important?
Excipients are used to facilitate the manufacture and use of medicines. Without excipients, it would not be feasible to formulate some drugs into appropriate medicinal products. For others the removal of excipients would reduce the shelf life and make them uneconomic to produce or too expensive for users to purchase.
Can excipients cause side effects?
Adverse effects due to excipients in drug formulations are generally uncommon but the potential for toxicity is increased at high mg per kg doses especially in neonates and infants. Dose related toxicity and hypersensitivity reactions are well documented in the literature.
Why do we need excipients?
What are excipients doing in medicines? Pharmaceutical excipients are substances that are included in a pharmaceutical dosage form not for their direct therapeutic action, but to aid the manufacturing process, to protect, support or enhance stability, or for bioavailability or patient acceptability.
Why are excipients used?
Pharmaceutical excipients are substances that are included in a pharmaceutical dosage form not for their direct therapeutic action, but to aid the manufacturing process, to protect, support or enhance stability, or for bioavailability or patient acceptability.
How many film coating plants does colorcon have?
Currently, all Colorcon manufacturing plants are operational; including our seven film coating facilities. We are committed to keeping you informed in the event of supply disruption which may impact the products you purchase from Colorcon.
What do you need to know about colorcon?
Colorcon helps you find the right solution for your development and production needs. At Colorcon, we provide outstanding regulatory and quality support to help reduce your regulatory risk and ensure the right excipient selection. Enroll in Colorcon Academy, gain access to technical tools or learn more by viewing our webinar library.
Why are colorcon excipients important to the pharmaceutical industry?
Recent reports have highlighted drugs that are being evaluated for potential use to treat, or lessen the effects of, COVID-19, and Colorcon’s products are used in some of these drugs. Therefore, it is very important and in the public interest that Colorcon continues to supply its coatings and excipients for these medicines.