Best starch supplier for pharmaceuticals - Bluecraft Agro

Best starch supplier for pharmaceuticals

Modified starch is one of the primary raw materials in the pharmaceutical industry owing to its binding, disintegrating and lubricating properties. Starch being a naturally occurring polysaccharide polymeric material, is a storehouse of excess energy and glucose in plants. The pharmaceutical industry uses it as a binder, glidant, disintegrant, diluent and lubricant.

Due to its swelling properties, it has its uses as a disintegrant in tablets. It ensures that the tablets and medicines break down easily and dissolve, enabling the drug to release smoothly. As a diluent, it facilitates the effective blending of raw materials during production. 

Starch has proved to be an efficient dry binder in dry granulation techniques where the active ingredient is hygroscopic and it is difficult to dry after wet binding. Since starch is partial cold water soluble, starch functions exceptionally well in manufacturing tablets by wet granulation applications, it performs dual functions of a disintegrant and a binder. In capsule filling processes, starch functions as an effective binder improving the uniformity of the capsule fill and forming a stable capsule plug.

Maize starch was one of the earliest excipients for medicinal dosage due to its non-toxic and non-irritant properties. It is used as an anti-sticking agent in medical products using latex-like surgical gloves, condoms and diaphragms. 

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