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    Film coating Problems and Remedies
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    Film coating Problems and Remedies
    1.Blistering
    2.Blushing
    3.Bridging(of the intagliations)
    4.Hipping
    5.Cracking
    6.Cratering
    7.Flaking
    8.Infilling
    9.Orange peel
    9.Peeling                                                                                                                                         1,230 have me in circles
    10.Picking
    11.Pimpling
    12.Pitting
    13.Pulling out(of a intagliation)                                                                                                                 Google Plus+ Add-me
    14.Splitting
    15.Wrinkling
    16.Blooming
    1. Blistering:
    Film becomes detached from substrate forming a blister
    Cause: Over heating during spraying of at end of coating run
    Remedy: Milder drying condition.
    2. Blooming:
    Coating becomes dull immediately or after a prolong storage. Film becomes detached from substrate forming a blister
    Cause: due to low molecular weight plasticizers included in the coating formulation
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    Remedy: Decrease plasticizer concentrations and increase molecular weight of plasticizer..
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    3. Chipping:                                                                                                                                                         Professional
    Film becomes chipped and dented, usually at the edges of the tablet
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    Cause: Excessive attrition during coating process.
    Remedy: hardness of the film by increasing the molecular grade of polymer.
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    4. Cracking:
    Films cracks or splits
    Cause: high internal stresses in film (more than the tensile strength of the film)
    Remedy: Adjusting the plasticizer type and concentration; Pigment type and concentration. Use lower molecular weight polymers or                  Facebook Follow Me
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    5. Flaking:
    Film flakes off exposing the tablet surface.
    Cause: Associated with cracking and splitting.
    Remedy: Adjust the spray rate with drying temperature.
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    6. Infilling:                                                                                                                                                        Amit Biswas
    Intagliation filled with either particles of dried polymer or solidified foam.
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    Cause: bubble or foam formation because of air spraying of polymer solution. Over drying of spray or excessive foaming of coating
    solution.                                                                                                                                                        Hello,
    Remedy: Add alcohol or use spray nozzle capable of finer atomization.                                                                                            I'm a Registered Pharmacist,
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    7. Orange peel/ Roughness:
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    Surface appearance similar to that of an orange or lemon
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    Cause: poor spreading or spreading of spray droplets associated with non-optimum spray atomization.
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    Remedy: Thinning the solution with additional solvent; use mild drying conditions                                                                 Pharmaceutical Company in the World)
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    8. Peeling:                                                                                                                                       Specialized Hospital)
    Film peels off exposing the best tablet surface                                                                                                   Attended "CPR" at Dhaka Medical College
    Cause: Associated with cracking and splitting.                                                                                                    Hospital
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    Remedy:Adjust molecular grade of polymer. Balance spraying and drying rate
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    9. Splitting:                                                                                                                                     Product Promotion Manager
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    Cause: High internal stress in film.                                                                                                              Working Now as a Web Developer, CSS
    Remedy:Use lower molecular weight polymers or polymeric blends. And/or adjust plasticizer type and concentration.                                 Developer, CRM Management Specialist and
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  This is when the tablet separates in laminar fashion. The problem stems from improper tablet compression, but it may not reveal itself            08627/posts
  until you start coating. How you operate the coating system, however, can exacerbate the problem. Be careful not to over-dry the                  Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/amit80
  tablets in the preheating stage. That can make the tablets brittle and promote capping.                                                           LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-
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  This is the result of high pan speed, a friable tablet core, or a coating solution that lacks a good plasticizer.                                 https://www.instagram.com/amitlight/?hl=en
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  This is when the coating removes a piece of the tablet from the core. It is caused by over-wetting the tablets, by under-drying, or by            http://itnews-solutions-tips.blogspot.com/
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  This occurs when the coating fills in the lettering or logo on the tablet and is typically caused by improper application of the solution,        http://itnews-solutions.blogspot.com/
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  poor design of the tablet embossing, high coating viscosity, high percentage of solids in the solution, or improper atomization
  pressure.
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  This can be the result of soft tablets, an over-wetted tablet surface, inadequate drying, or lack of tablet surface strength.
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  Mottled color:
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  This can happen when the coating solution is improperly prepared, the actual spray rate differs from the target rate, the tablet cores
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  are cold, or the drying rate is out of spec.
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  Peeling & Frosting:
  This is a defect where the coating peels away from the tablet surface in a sheet. Peeling indicates that the coating solution did not
  lock into the tablet surface. This could be due to a defect in the coating solution, over-wetting, or high moisture content in the tablet         Total Visitors
  core.
  Twinning:
  This is the term for two tablets thats stick together, and its a common problem with capsule shaped tablets. Assuming you to change
  the tablet shape, you can solve this problem by balancing the pan speed and spray rate. Try reducing the spray rate or increasing the
  pan speed. In some cases, it is necessary to modify the design of the tooling by very slightly changing the radius. The change is
  almost impossible to see, but it prevents the twinning problem.
  Orange peel:
  This refers to a coating texture that resembles the surface of an orange. It is usually the result of high atomization pressure in
  combination with spray rates that are too high. T & C this photo shows multiple defects. The initial problem is erosion of the tablet
  edge due to a soft or friable tablet or because the pan was turning too fast or both. Peeling and breakage also appear here. I attribute
  the peeling in this photo to excessive moisture within the tablet, which preserved the coating from adhering. However, the tablet
  coating also pulled the granulation out of the tablet, a picking defect. That is usually caused by over-wetting the tablet or by a tablet
  that is too fast.
  Just one broken tablet can distribute particles to all other tablets and mar their appearance. These tablets likely broke because they
  had poor hardness. This photo shows a very porous tablet that prevented the coating from adhering to the surface. These tablets
  should have been coated longer, and atomization pressure should have been reduced to decrease the slight orange peel, or
  textured, surface.
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