Where Can ZGL Pharmaceutical Gelatin Be Used?

As the name suggests, pharmaceutical gelatin is used in the production of pharmaceutical products. Some of its uses are direct, such as in the production of cod liver oil; others are indirect, such as in capsules or as packaging for medicines. Gelatin is made from animal skin, bones and tendons through complex physical and chemical processing. It is fat-free, high in protein and easily absorbed by the human body. It offers physical properties such as high viscosity, strong gel strength and ready setting.

Medical gelatin should be dry, clean, uniform and free of impurities. It appears as light yellow to yellow fine granules, should pass through a standard sieve with a 4mm aperture, and its solution should have no off-odor. Its main medical uses are as a plasma substitute, hemostatic sponges, soft and hard capsules, a raw material for tablet sugar coatings, an encapsulation material for microspheres and microcapsules, and other sustained-release and biofilm materials.

Succinylated gelatin for injection is prepared by spray-drying and freeze-drying processes and made into a solid preparation, improving its stability, making it easier to transport and store, and overcoming the instability and inconvenient transport and storage of peptide-based biological infusion products.

Gelatin is an important chemical raw material with a wide range of applications. However, apart from the technical specifications for “gelatin” listed in the pharmacopoeia, there is no formal gelatin standard. In addition, the pharmacopoeia covers only a single variety of gelatin, with incomplete technical items and indicators that fail to reflect its actual scope of application.

To standardize the production of hard capsules, the Ministry of Health issued the “Gelatin Capsule Standard” in 1988 for gelatin, their main raw material, but that standard applies only to the manufacture of hard capsules. With no formal gelatin standard to follow, gelatin manufacturers and users alike worked either from the edible gelatin standard or from the “gelatin capsule” standard. A unified gelatin standard was therefore urgently needed to bring consistency to the production and usage requirements of the time.

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