Glyceryl Behenate
Excipient (pharmacologically inactive substance)
What is it?
Glyceryl behenate is a saturated fatty acid (C22H43O2), a mixture of glyceryl esters of behenic acid made from glycerin and behenic acid). The mixture contains predominately glyceryl dibehenate. Glyceryl behenate is used in the pharmaceutical industry as an excipient in tablets and capsules and as a lubricant. It is a food substance generally regarded as safe by the FDA.[1]
[1] FDA: CFR - Code of Federal Regulations Title 21. Accessed February 15, 2015 at http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=184.1328
Top Medications with this excipient
- Advil Allergy Sinus chlorpheniramine maleate 2 mg / ibuprofen 200 mg / pseudoephedrine 30 mg (Pfizer Consumer Healthcare)
- Aplenzin 174 mg (Sanofi-Aventis)
- Divalproex Sodium 250 mg (Wockhardt USA)
- Divalproex Sodium Delayed-Release 500 mg (Wockhardt USA)
- Effient 5 mg (Lilly, Eli and Company)
- Effient 10 mg (Eli Lilly and Company)
- Gabapentin 600 mg (Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.)
- Gabapentin 100 mg (Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.)
- Gabapentin 300 mg (Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.)
- Gabapentin 400 mg (Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.)
- Gabapentin 800 mg (Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.)
- Glumetza 1000 mg (Santarus Inc.)
- Ibuprofen PM 38 mg / 200 mg (L Perrigo Company)
- Metformin Hydrochloride Extended Release 500 mg (Zydus Pharmaceuticals)
- Metformin Hydrochloride Extended Release 750 mg (Zydus Pharmaceuticals)
- Metoprolol Succinate Extended-Release 200 mg (Ethex Corporation)
- Metoprolol Succinate Extended-Release 50 mg (Ethex Corporation)
- Nisoldipine Extended Release 25.5 mg (URL Pharma)
- Nisoldipine Extended Release 34 mg (URL Pharma)
- Nisoldipine Extended Release 8.5 mg (URL Pharma)
