Gelatin
Excipient (pharmacologically inactive substance)
What is Gelatin?
Gelatin is an animal protein made by boiling the collagenous material from animal bones, hides, and skins. Pig and cattle bones are typically used to make gelatin. Gelatin has many uses, including use in cooking, industrial uses, cosmetics and photography.
In the pharmaceutical industry, gelatin is used primarily to make hard and soft gelatin capsules. Other uses include tablets, emulsions, suppositories and syrups. It has been used for over 125 years in the food industry.[1] Gelatin is generally recognized as safe by the FDA.[2]
[1] Anon. Uses of Gelatin: Gelatin Innovations http://www.gelatininnovations.com/pages/uses_of_gelatin.html; 4/30/2009; Accessed 8/18/2011
[2] FDA’s SCOGS database; Gelatin, Report No. 58, 1979.; ID Code: 9000-70-8; http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/fcn/fcnDetailNavigation.cfm?rpt=scogsListing&id=58; accessed August 18 2011.
Top Medications Containing Gelatin
- Acetaminophen and Oxycodone Hydrochloride 500 mg / 5 mg (Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals)
- Amoxicillin 500 mg (Teva Pharmaceuticals USA)
- Amoxicillin Trihydrate 500mg (Aurobindo Pharma)
- Celebrex 200 mg (Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group)
- Cephalexin Monohydrate 500 mg (Teva Pharmaceuticals USA)
- Clindamycin Hydrochloride 150 mg (Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Clindamycin Hydrochloride 300 mg (Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Fluoxetine Hydrochloride 20 mg (Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Gabapentin 300 mg (Greenstone Limited)
- Gabapentin 300 mg (Actavis Elizabeth LLC)
- HydrOXYzine Pamoate 25 mg (Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Hydroxyzine Pamoate 25 mg (Teva Pharmaceuticals USA)
- Hydroxyzine Pamoate 50 mg (Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Hydroxyzine Pamoate 50 mg (Teva Pharmaceuticals USA)
- Lyrica 75 mg (Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group)
- Lyrica 50 mg (Pfizer U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group)
- Omeprazole 20 mg (Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Omeprazole Delayed Release 20 mg (Kremers Urban)
- Temazepam 30 mg (Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
- Temazepam 15 mg (Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.)
