QuickStrip is a thin film made from pullulan--a soluble polymer--that can be embedded with
active ingredients, said Kristina Shea, marketing and communications director with RDT.
For example, Panadol Extra Don't pay over the odds for medicine Advance and Panadol Period Pain, both have the same 500mg of paracetamol as the
active ingredient, and both have PL number 44673/0078 - they're the same thing, just in a different packet.
The ministry explained that other medicines, which are manufactured using the same
active ingredient from other sources, are safe to use.
Coatings are also used to mask the taste of bitter
active ingredients found in solid dosage drugs.
Functional chewing gum has had
active ingredients added.
Professor Anna Glasier, a leading expert in reproductive medicine who led research inTO levonorgestrel at the University of Edinburgh, told The Independent it was "highly likely" that other medicines for which it was an
active ingredient would be similarly affected.
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active ingredient 44.0 41.2 39.8 -1.3 -0.7 Pesticide
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CHICAGO -- Americans tend not to read the labels on over-the-counter pain relievers, a recent study suggests, and many pay scant attention to the products'
active ingredients.
Bayer CropScience (BCS) is closing its manufacturing facilities dedicated to carbamate chemistries (
active ingredient in Temik and Sevin and some intermediate materials associated with them) in Institute, WV, and is shutting down its Woodbine, GA, formulation facility.
Berkem will launch its new
active ingredient, Powergrape, at Vitafoods 2007 in Geneva.