Abstract Warfarin is intensively discussed drug with narrow therapeutic range. There have been cases of bleeding attributed to varying content or altered quality of the active substance. Factor analysis is useful for finding suitable technological parameters leading to high content uniformity of tablets containing low amount of active substance. The composition of tabletting blend and technological procedure were set with respect to factor analysis of previously published results. The...
Purpose: To validate a new and simple method for cleaning a manufacturing line for creams and ointments. Methods: The worst case product of the line chosen was a cream containing three practically insoluble ingredients: betamethasone, tolnaftate and cliquinol. The cleaning method utilized hot water and a commercial detergent, followed by rinsing. Validation methods included the visual inspection of the machine surface, swab sampling, microbial bioburden determination and testing the final rinse...