The Influence of Calcium Carbonate in Tablet Coating Systems

Category
C&DP: Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
Year
2012
Authors
Beverly A. Schad and Eric H. Van Ness Tom Riley Brian Cheng
Institutions
Sensient Pharmaceutical Coating Systems, St. Louis, MO, 63106, USA
Summary

Sensient Pharmaceutical Coating Systems offers novel film coating systems that are widely used in the industry. One of the newer coating systems is patent pending Spectrablend CC (calcium carbonate). Spectrablend CC is a metal free coating system free of titanium dioxide exhibiting hiding power in high solids, non-foaming solutions. Other attributes are the incorporation of natural colors for the nutraceutical companies and iron oxides for the pharmaceutical companies affording smooth, glossy and defined logo definitions.