API: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Working and Experiences: Pharma Industry

01 of 2019

Hello Friends,

HI ! I'm  Working in Pharmaceutical industry since long time

Here in the blog we shall communicate about API  "Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients" Industry and the experiences.

If you are working in a Industry of Pharmaceutical , then you have to understand the meaning of API:

A substance used in a finished pharmaceutical product, intended to furnish pharmacological activity or to otherwise have direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease, or to have direct effect in restoring, correcting or modifying physiological functions in human beings.

If you are a fresher and going to prepared for interview in Pharma industry then you have to know about the industry and the works.

First you should be proud on the industry because it not just a work, here we manufacture LiFe SaViNg DrUgS. and API is a key life saving ingredients. Whatever the doctor of Allopathy (the treatment of disease by conventional means, i.e. with drugs having effects opposite to the symptoms) industry subscribed the drug is having API. 

Now the Question is Tablets only have APIs ?

No....

Actually Tablets are combination of API and Excipients. 

Now the question is what is Excipients ? As the word already made by "Except" mesas "Other than", It means other than API whatever in tablet is available is called Excipients. Eg. If you are taking 5 mg Cetirizine ( Antihistamine used to relieve allergy ), then in the tablet the API-Cetirizine is 5 mg in the tablet, Now if you weigh the tablet than obviously it is more than 5 mg, So whatever in the tablet other than API is used is called Excipients. Now it is more clear for you. 

And you can understand now "An excipient is a substance formulated alongside the API of a medication, It is normally use for stability to the powder api and bulking of solids , used for dilution etc.

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More blogs:
2 of 2019: API: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, Key starting material and its role in API
Link:https://phamra.blogspot.com/2019/05/api-active-pharmaceutical-ingredients.html


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