The United States Pharmacopeia India,a non-profit global health organisation that creates and promotes quality standards for medicines, herbal medicines/dietary supplements and food ingredients, has launched a course on ‘Development and Validation of Dissolution Procedure. The two-day course will be held on February 20 and 21, 2014 in New Delhi and February 24 and 25, 2014 in Mumbai.
Considered to be the leader in pharmacopeial education, the course is aimed at scientists, chemists, and lab technicians who perform dissolution testing in the lab, lab managers, QC, as well as product development professional who review dissolution data. These individuals should have a good grasp of how to execute basic dissolution testing and USP aims impart such knowledge to them through this new course.
Some of the key learning objectives are development of dissolution and drug release testing methods based on physico-chemical characterisation of APIs, physiological considerations when setting up tests, selection of dissolution testing conditions, including instruments and media, setting acceptance criteria, interpretation of dissolution test results and validation of dissolution procedures and drug release methods.
Dr Erika Stippler, Director, Dosage Form Performance Laboratory, United States Pharmacopeia, Rockville, US will be the faculty for the course in New Delhi and Mumbai.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai
