Gelatin
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Excipient (pharmacologically inactive substance)
What is it?
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]
Top medications with this excipient
- Acetaminophen and Diphenhydramine Hydrochloride 500 mg / 25 mg
- Amoxicillin trihydrate 500 mg
- Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine Extended Release 20 mg
- Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine Extended Release 30 mg
- Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine Extended Release 30 mg
- Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine Extended Release 20 mg
- Cephalexin 500 mg
- Cephalexin Monohydrate 500 mg
- Clindamycin Hydrochloride 300 mg
- Clindamycin Hydrochloride 150 mg
- Doxycycline Hyclate 100 mg
- Fluoxetine Hydrochloride 20 mg
- Fluoxetine Hydrochloride 40 mg
- Gabapentin 300 mg
- Gabapentin 100 mg
- Gabapentin 300 mg
- Gabapentin 300 mg
- Hydroxyzine Pamoate 50 mg
- Hydroxyzine Pamoate 25 mg
- Omeprazole Delayed-Release 20 mg
References
- [1]Anon. Uses of Gelatin: Gelatin Innovations http://www.gelatininnovations.com/pages/uses_of_gelatin.html; 4/30/2009; Accessed 8/18/2011
- 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.
Further information
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