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Pharmaceutical Testing: Assessing the Physical Strength of Pharmaceutical Products and Packaging
To maintain regulatory compliance and ensure high product quality, stringent quality control procedures are consistently applied to assess the physical integrity of pharmaceutical packaging and products.
The pill crush test is conducted to assess the compressive properties of tablets, focusing on factors such as hardness, powder molding behavior, and surface coating integrity.
Pill splitting test is performed on tablets designed with central grooves, enabling them to be taken whole by adults or split into half doses for children. This test ensures that the tablets can be accurately divided using an appropriate amount of force without compromising their structural or functional integrity.
Push-out tests for push-through-packs (PTP) measure the force needed to remove a pill from its packaging. The goal is to balance ease of pill removal while preventing accidental push-outs, ensuring both user convenience and safety.
The pellet crush test determines the crushing strength, identifying the point at which the pellet structurally fails to ensure the integrity of the pellets during handling, processing and storage.
Check out the Shimadzu Universal Testing Machines performing the pharmaceutical tests.
