Gelatin Pill Capsule

Gelatin Pill Capsules

Empty (Vacant) capsule is one of the most common choices for medicine filling, and it has acquired an important position in the industry of medicine manufacture. Since the quality and material of the vacant capsules directly affects the effect and safety in medicine usage, our factory has always been searching for new and good material to improve the quality of the capsule shells, and try to make the best products to our customers.

The empty capsule is a kind of capsule shell with designated colors (prepared at the specific requirement of the customer) and shape made of gelatin as main material. It is usually used as the special packing for those medicines or health products with bad smell, light sensitiveness or labialisation in wet or hot conditions. No bond or additional pressure is required in producing capsules with vacant capsules. In addition, the specific capsules are easy to disintegrate in the gastric juice. Compared with tablets and pills, the capsules can offer a better bioavailability and other advantages in convenient preparation, carriage and usage and safe airproof packing.

Properties

This product is a cylindric shape. It is a hard and elastic capsule with cap and body. Thylakoid should be bright and clean, uniform color, smooth incision, no deformation, no odor. This product cent is transparent, translucent, opaque 3 kinds.

Identification

(1) Take 0.5g of this product, add 50ml water, heat it to dissolve it, cool it, take 5ml solution, and add a few drops of the mixture of potassium chromite test solution and dilute hydrochloric acid (4:1) to form orange flocculent precipitation.

(2) Take 1ml of the remaining solution under item (1), add 50ml water, shake well, add a few drops of tannic acid test solution, namely, turbidity occurs.

(3) Take about 0.3g of this product, put it in a test tube, add a little sodium lime, and heat it. The gas generated can make the wet red litmus paper turn blue.