Industrial Pharmacy

The aim of a pharmaceutical industry is to discover, develop, manufacture, and market safe and therapeutically effective medicines with the highest standards. Industrial pharmacy is a discipline that deals in development, manufacture, quality assurance, and distribution of drug products.

Thus, Industrial pharmacy or Pharmaceutics is not a subject of single area; it requires knowledge of chemistry, pharmacology, microbiology, biochemistry, etc. for successful formulation development the physicochemical properties of the drug, its interaction with other ingredients, biopharmaceutical considerations of the pure drug and of its formulation, safety and therapeutic effectiveness need to be considered. Researchers have been working to meet therapeutic as well as patients’ requirements, as a result newer delivery systems are developed. However, it is essential for the students to understand the concepts of development and manufacture of drug delivery systems. The book, Industrial Pharmacy: A comprehensive Approach has been designed and prepared to transform the fundamental knowledge about various conventional dosage forms. In fact more than 90% of the preparations available in the market are of conventional type. Therefore the students pursuing pharmacy course at any level can gain basic information for development and manufacture of drug delivery systems. The language of this book is also simple to understand.