Shahina
Shahina
Shahina
On
at
OF THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF PHARMACY
FEBRUARY,2023
MR.
Topic Page No
Candidate’s Declaration i
Abstract ii
Acknowledgement iii
About the Ashoka Institute of Technology & Management iv
Capsule
Characteristics
Components of Capsules
Types of Capsules
Soft Gel Encapsulation
Hard Gelatin Capsules
Capsule Size
Characteristics
Additives
Gelatin
Manufacture of Hard Gelatin Capsule
Capsules parameter as per I.P.
Filling Hard Capsules Shells
Process Capsule Filling
Quality Control
Quality Assurance & Quality Control in Pharma Industry
Quality Assurance (QA) Management Procedure
Quality Control work (Summary)
Quality Control Department
Working Of Quality Control
Packaging Section
Types of packaging
The purposes of packaging and package labels
Packaging machines
Conclusion
Reference
ASHOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
VARANASI
CANDIDATE'S DECLARATION
“Bachelor of
VARANASI. The work which is being presented in the training report submitted to
Industrial training is an important phase of a student life. A well planned, properly executed
and evaluated industrial training helps a lot in developing a professional attitude. It develop
an awareness of industrial approach to problem solving, based on a broad understanding of
process and mode of operation of organization. The aim and motivation of this industrial
training is to receive discipline, skills, teamwork and technical knowledge through a proper
training environment, which will help me, as a student in the field of Information
Technology, to develop a responsiveness of the self-disciplinary nature of problems in
information and communication technology. Throughout this industrial training, I have been
learned new techniques of packaging, quality control etc related to capsules.
I have taken efforts in this project. However, it would have been possible without the kind
support and help of many individuals. It is indeed a great pleasure to work on this project and
presenting this report to my department. This project had provided me a good exposure to the
real world problem and also a solution to that.
I would like to pay my heartiest thanks to Dr. Sarika Srivastava, Director of AITM & Dr.
Brijesh Singh, Principal of B.Pharma Department, AITM who provided me such a
wonderful opportunity to pursue my mini project on such an interesting topics. My heartfelt
thanks go to all other faculties who provided valuable suggestions and kind co-operation. I
would like to thanks our project guide Mr. Abhishek Gupta, for importing his valuable
guidance and support. He has not only provided suggestions but also rectified my problems
whenever I have faced any problems.
I would like to express my special gratitude and thanks to persons who rendered their
assistance directly or indirectly. I would like to express my gratitude towards my parents &
friends for their kind co-operation and encouragement which help me in this project.
Bachelor of Pharma,
AITM
Institute believes in conveying such qualitative knowledge that enables budding technical
wizards to accept the challenges of posterity. Our sprawling campus studded with plush
facilities will go a long way in giving much needed inputs to students of UP in general and
Purvanchal in particular. Our integrated campus is first of its kind to offer Managerial,
Pharmaceutical and Engineering studies under one umbrella in the competent and dynamic
leadership of top-class academic stalwarts.
B TECH & MBA courses are approved by ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL
EDUCATION (AICTE) and B PHARMA by PHARMACY COUNCIL OF INDIA (PCI) and
the institute is affiliated to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (APJAKTU)
Lucknow.
CAPSULE SECTION
Capsule
Capsule is solid dosage forms in which one or more medicinal and or inert substances are enclosed within
a small shell or container generally prepared from a suitable form of gelatin. Depending upon their
formulation, the gelatin capsule shells may be hard or soft.
Characteristics:
1. May be swallowed whole by the patient.
2. May be inserted into the rectum for drug release and absorption from the site.
3. The contents may be removed from the gelatin shell and employed as a pre measured medicinal
powder, the capsule shell being use to contain a dose of the medicinal substance.
4. Elegance.
5. Ease of use.
6. Portability.
7. Tasteless shell to mask the unpleasant taste/odor of the drug.
8. Permits physician to prescribe the exact medication needed by the patient.
9. Conveniently carried.
10. Readily identified.
11. Easily taken.
12. tasteless when swallowed.
13. Commonly embossed or imprinted on their surface the manufacturer’s name and product code readily
identified.
Components of Capsules
1. Gelatin.
2. FD & C and D & C colorant.
3. Sugar.
Type of capsule
The two main types of capsules are-
A recent innovation in capsule shell design is the p-Fit, Coni-Snap, and Coni Snap Supro
Sna hard gelatin capsules.
Capsule size
For human use, empty capsules ranging in size from 000 the largest to 5 the smallest.
Generally, hard gelatin capsule are used to encapsulate between 65 mg to 1 gram.
Characteristics
Usually use in the extemporaneous compounding of Rx.
Coloured with various FD & C and D & C dyes and made opaque by adding
agents such as titanium dioxide.
Combination of colorants and Opaquants to make them distinctive, many with caps and
bodies of different colours.
Plasticizers: -
Preservatives: -
Flavours: -
Sugar: -
Additives: -
a) Diluents: -
The diluents have to be added to bring the medicament up to a desired bulk.
The quantities of diluents are related to the dose of the medicament and the capsule
size.
b) Protective Sorbents: -
Sometimes some inert materials are included to prevent the absorption of moisture by
hygroscopic substances.
Materials like – oxides and carbonates of Mg or Ca.
c) Glidants: -
Glidants become essential when the powders are filled by automated machinery
requiring their regular flow in the capsule bodies.
Glidants like- Talc, Stearates.
d) Anti-dusting compounds: -
These are the compounds which prevent the flow of dust particle of the drug in the
air to causes health hazards.
Anti-dusting compounds like- inert edible oils.
Gelatin
It is obtained by the partial hydrolysis of collagen obtained from skin, white
connective tissue and bones of animals.
Available in the form of a fine powder, a coarse powder, shreds, flakes, or sheets.
Stable in air when dry but when become moist - subject to microbial decomposition.
7. Finished capsules.
ProFill 100 - The ProFill 100 Capsule Filling Machine utilizes an advanced design for fool-
proof manual filling of two-piece capsules. With the Pro Fill 100 machine, there is no need
for expensive capsule filling equipment and electrical/vacuum connection.
Finishing: -
The filled the sealed capsules necessitate finishing operation before inspection, bowling or
packing in strips and labelling. The following steps are involved in the finishing process-
a) Pan polishing.
b) Cloth dusting.
c) Brushing.
d) Sealing.
e) Inspection (ROTOSORT).
Evaluation of capsules: -
1. Uniformity of weight.
2. Content of active ingredients in capsules.
3. Disintegration.
4. Dissolution.
QUALITY CONTROL
Complete analysis of all RM/ process & F.G. sample as per prescribed standard.
To send report to production, store, Q C office.
To carry out stability testing etc.
Instrument maintenance and calibration.
3 pH meter ECIL
7 Oven SEW
8 B.O.D. JRSC
PACKAGING SECTION
Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for
distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation,
and production of packages. Package labelling or labelling is any written, electronic, or
graphic communications on the packaging or on a separate but associated label.
Types of packaging:
There are two types of packaging-
1. Primary packaging.
2. Secondary packaging.
1- PRIMARY PACKAGING: -
a) Blister packaging: -
Blister Packaging
TEMPRATURE: -
Forming heater = 140º-170º C.
Sealing heater = 170º-200º C.
b) Strip packaging: -
The strip package is form by feeding to webs of a heat sealable flexible film through either a
heated crimping roller or a heated reciprocating platen. In this the product is drop into the
pocket formed prior to forming the final set of seals.
Machine: -
It consists of –
Hopper.
Disc.
Channel (chute).
Two rollers (for Al foil).
Cutter (centre cutter).
Conveyer belt.
Thermostat.
Selector.
When primary (strip & blister) packaging is done. The strips & blisters are subject
for secondary packaging.
Strip Packaging
2- SECONDARY PACKAGING: -
It involved –
Cartoons (printed).
Corrugated boxes (CB).
White board box.
When secondary packaging is complete a BOPP tape (Bio Oriented Poly Propylene
Tape) is use for sticking.
Physical protection - The objects enclosed in the package may require protection from,
among other things, shock, vibration, compression, temperature, etc.
Barrier protection - A barrier from oxygen, water vapor, dust, etc., is often required.
Permeation is a critical factor in design. Some packages contain desiccants or Oxygen
absorbers to help extend shelf life. Modified atmospheres or controlled atmospheres are also
maintained in some food packages. Keeping the contents clean, fresh, and safe for the
intended shelf life is a primary function.
Containment or agglomeration - Small objects are typically grouped together in one
package for reasons of efficiency. For example, a single box of 1000 pencils require less
physical handling than 1000 single pencils. Liquids, powders, and granules need
containment.
Information transmission - Packages and labels communicate how to use, transport,
recycle, or dispose of the package or product. With pharmaceuticals, food, medical, and
chemical products, some types of information are required by governments.
Marketing - The packaging and labels can be used by marketers to encourage potential
buyers to purchase the product. Package design has been an important and constantly
evolving phenomenon for several decades. Marketing communications and graphic design
are applied to the surface of the package and (in many cases) the point-of-sale display.
Convenience - Packages can have features which add convenience in distribution, handling,
stacking, display, sale, opening, reclosing, use, and reuse.
Portion control - Single serving or single dosage packaging has a precise number of
contents to control usage. Bulk commodities (such as salt) can be divided into packages that
are a more suitable size for individual households. It is also aids the control of inventory:
selling sealed one-litre-bottles of milk, rather than having people bring their own bottles to
fill themselves.
Packaging Machines
A choice of packaging machinery includes, technical capabilities, labour requirements,
worker safety, maintainability, serviceability, reliability, ability to integrate into the
packaging line, capital cost, flexibility (change-over, materials, etc.), energy usage, quality of
outgoing packages, qualifications (for food, pharmaceuticals, etc.), throughput, efficiency,
productivity.
High speed conveyor with bar code scanner for sorting transport packages
• Bottle caps equipment, Over-Capping, Lidding, Closing, Seaming and Sealing Machines.
• Cartooning Machines.
• Box, Case and Tray Forming, Packing, Unpacking, Closing and Sealing Machines.
• Wrapping Machines.
CONLUSION
UPDPL helped us to imbibe the detailed information about capsule section & packaging
section.
This industrial training provided a valuable learning experience in the carrier exploration
process and gave us unexpected benefit. Now I have evaluated the class room taught facts
and ideas and applied them to the real-life situation. We came to know about many things
such as the GMP (Good Manufacturing Process), the Current Good Manufacturing Process
(CGMP). The basic laboratory requirement for product validation, the variety of machine
used in the large-scale industries of medicine etc.
These and many other factors cause the enhance of my knowledge and have created a lifelong
interest to learning through an exposure to new educational experience.
REFERENCE
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_(pharmacy)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_endoscopy
3. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292539476_Capsule_Manufa
cturing_Technology
4. https://www.slideshare.net/AnkushBiswas/a-project-report-on-
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