inert ingredient

In pharmaceutical manufacturing, any nonreactive substance used to facilitate the manufacturing of pills and other forms of medication.

Synonym: filler (3)

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Department of Agriculture allows the sale of unadulterated vinegar at these concentrations as an inert ingredient.

Horticultural Vinegar for Weed Control

did not list the inert ingredients or bear the name and percentage by weight of each active and inert ingredient.

United States : EPA Takes Action to Protect Health Care Facilities from Unregistered and Mislabeled Antimicrobial Pesticides

While the Sentinel, on the advice of legal counsel who had reviewed state and federal trade secrets laws, did temporarily remove the ingredient list from our Web site after five days, we subsequently, and quickly, published the name of the inert ingredient in follow-up stories and editorials, and then republished the entire list again, based on the judge's ruling in Los Angeles," Miller said, referring Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Yaffe's rejection of Suterra's request for a temporary restraining order blocking publication of the ingredients.

UPDATE: Will Pesticide Maker Seal Info Revealed By Calif. Paper?

The three numbers on the bag are the percentages of nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium with the total of the three being the total active ingredient; the remaining percentage is the inert ingredient, which is carrier or filler.

Chapter 8 media, nutrients, and fertilizers

Experts are unsure whether chlorpyrifos - the active ingredient in Dursban - or an inert ingredient, or a combination of ingredients may be causing health problems, LaFave said.

Insecticide may pose greater risk to humans than originally believed

The medication may contain a different inert ingredient, however, and it's possible that someone might have a minor side effect from that, but it happens only rarely.

How far can you trust generics?

But we've shown that there are changes taking place in this inert ingredient.

Recent FDA action draws big crowd in Florida: the Florida Chapter of the society of cosmetic chemists held its semi-annual sunscreen symposium and drew a big crowd as the industry sought answers to the recent rulings by the US FDA

In work published in the 19 January 2009 issue of Chemical Research in Toxicology, Nora Benachour and Gilles-Eric Seralini found that an inert ingredient used as a surfactant, polyethoxylated tallowamine, was more damaging than the active ingredient glyphosate to human umbilical cord, placental, and embryonic cells.

Mystery in a bottle: will the EPA require public disclosure of inert pesticide ingredients?

In fact, an inert ingredient "may have biological activity of its own, it may be toxic to humans, and it may be chemically active" (U.

Unidentified inert ingredients in pesticides: implications for human and environmental health

In addition to that, a pesticide composition certificate, containing percentages of active and inert ingredients, issued by a public lab that is approved by the registration authority and meets the Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) requirements, must be submitted.

New rules on pesticide registration issued

A drug is typically formulated in the iSPERSE matrix using "excipients"--typically inert ingredients like salts that enhance the drug's utility.

USPTO Grants Pulmatrix Patents on Inhaled Drug Delivery Technology and COPD Drug

This component is combined with other inert ingredients to create the agrochemical formulation used in the market.

Agricultural Cooperative ZEN-NOH and Mitsubishi Corporation to Establish Agrochemical Joint Venture