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New Opportunities - Speciality Pregelatinised Starch Excipients

Excipients are increasingly being recognised for the critical role they play in pharmaceutical products. Pharmaceutical excipients contribute enormously to the efficacy of a product by providing specific special functionalities in formulations. Excipients bind tablets together under the stress of direct compression, control the release of active ingredients, help tablets to disintegrate and dissolve efficiently and influence absorption. Formulators of finished dosage forms are dependent on excipient manufacturers to provide substances which are uniform in chemical and physical characteristics, offer processing benefits and meet the highest global standards. New, multi-functional, high purity excipients which comply with all regional pharmacopoeia requirements simultaneously - and can therefore be used worldwide - are now available. Here, the role of this new generation of excipients is examined with reference to their functional properties.

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By Dr Fred Heinze, Business Manager, Healthcare Europe at National Starch
Dr Fred Heinze is Business Manager, Healthcare Europe at National Starch. A graduate in Pharmacy, Fred has a PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. He has 13 years' experience in the pharmaceutical, personal care and food industries.

In his current position, Fred manages the European activities of National Starch which relate to pharmaceuticals. He is a member of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG), the German Society of Cosmetic Chemists (DgK), the Swiss Polymer Group (PGS) and the International Association for Pharmaceutical Technology (APV).

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