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Tablet Hardness Tester
Original price was: KSh 63,100.00.KSh 58,100.00Current price is: KSh 58,100.00.
Type: | Medicine Detecting Instrument |
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Finished Dosage Form: | Tablet |
Precision: | High Precision |
Voltage: | 220V |
Computerized: | Computerized |
Customized: | Customized |
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Tablet Hardness Tester
A tablet hardness tester is a laboratory instrument used in the pharmaceutical industry to measure the breaking strength and structural integrity of tablets. It plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality, efficacy, and safety of medication. Here’s a detailed breakdown:
Function:
This device measures the force required to break a tablet placed between two anvils or platens. The tester applies a gradually increasing pressure until the tablet fractures. The pressure at which the tablet breaks is recorded as its hardness value.
Features:
- Force measurement: Measures the force applied to break the tablet, typically displayed in units like Newtons (N) or kiloponds (kp).
- Displacement measurement: Some testers track the distance the tablet travels under pressure before breaking, providing additional insights into its behavior.
- Data storage and analysis: Advanced testers can store and analyze test results, allowing for statistical analysis and quality control monitoring.
- User interface: May range from simple controls on manual testers to touchscreens with user-friendly interfaces on automated models.
- Compliance standards: Many testers comply with industry standards like USP (United States Pharmacopeia) and EP (European Pharmacopoeia), ensuring they meet regulatory requirements.
Benefits:
- Quality control: Helps ensure tablets meet the required hardness specifications, impacting factors like:
- Storage and transportation: Prevents tablets from breaking during handling and distribution.
- Packaging design: Informs the design of packaging materials to provide sufficient protection.
- Patient experience: Ensures tablets are neither too hard to swallow nor crumble easily.
- Research and development: Allows for testing different formulations and manufacturing processes to optimize tablet properties.
- Improved efficacy: Maintains consistent tablet disintegration rates for proper drug release in the body.
- Safety: Helps identify potential issues like capping (incomplete compression) or over-compression that could affect drug delivery or cause safety concerns.
Applications:
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing: Routine quality control testing of tablets during production.
- Research and development: Developing new medications and optimizing tablet formulations.
- Contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs): Ensuring tablets meet client specifications.
- Regulatory testing: Compliance testing for regulatory approval of new drugs.
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