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Film coating Problems and Remedies
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Film coating Problems and Remedies

1.Blistering
2.Blushing
3.Bridging(of the intagliations)
4.Hipping
5.Cracking
6.Cratering
7.Flaking
8.Infilling
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10.Picking
11.Pimpling
12.Pitting
13.Pulling out(of a intagliation) Google Plus+ Add-me
14.Splitting
15.Wrinkling
16.Blooming

1. Blistering:
Film becomes detached from substrate forming a blister
Cause: Over heating during spraying of at end of coating run
Remedy: Milder drying condition.

2. Blooming:
Coating becomes dull immediately or after a prolong storage. Film becomes detached from substrate forming a blister
Cause: due to low molecular weight plasticizers included in the coating formulation
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Film becomes chipped and dented, usually at the edges of the tablet
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Cause: Excessive attrition during coating process.
Remedy: hardness of the film by increasing the molecular grade of polymer.
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4. Cracking:
Films cracks or splits
Cause: high internal stresses in film (more than the tensile strength of the film)
Remedy: Adjusting the plasticizer type and concentration; Pigment type and concentration. Use lower molecular weight polymers or Facebook Follow Me
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5. Flaking:
Film flakes off exposing the tablet surface.
Cause: Associated with cracking and splitting.
Remedy: Adjust the spray rate with drying temperature.

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Intagliation filled with either particles of dried polymer or solidified foam.
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Cause: bubble or foam formation because of air spraying of polymer solution. Over drying of spray or excessive foaming of coating
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7. Orange peel/ Roughness:
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This can be the result of soft tablets, an over-wetted tablet surface, inadequate drying, or lack of tablet surface strength.
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Peeling & Frosting:

This is a defect where the coating peels away from the tablet surface in a sheet. Peeling indicates that the coating solution did not
lock into the tablet surface. This could be due to a defect in the coating solution, over-wetting, or high moisture content in the tablet Total Visitors
core.

Twinning:
This is the term for two tablets thats stick together, and its a common problem with capsule shaped tablets. Assuming you to change
the tablet shape, you can solve this problem by balancing the pan speed and spray rate. Try reducing the spray rate or increasing the
pan speed. In some cases, it is necessary to modify the design of the tooling by very slightly changing the radius. The change is
almost impossible to see, but it prevents the twinning problem.

Orange peel:
This refers to a coating texture that resembles the surface of an orange. It is usually the result of high atomization pressure in
combination with spray rates that are too high. T & C this photo shows multiple defects. The initial problem is erosion of the tablet
edge due to a soft or friable tablet or because the pan was turning too fast or both. Peeling and breakage also appear here. I attribute
the peeling in this photo to excessive moisture within the tablet, which preserved the coating from adhering. However, the tablet
coating also pulled the granulation out of the tablet, a picking defect. That is usually caused by over-wetting the tablet or by a tablet
that is too fast.
Just one broken tablet can distribute particles to all other tablets and mar their appearance. These tablets likely broke because they
had poor hardness. This photo shows a very porous tablet that prevented the coating from adhering to the surface. These tablets
should have been coated longer, and atomization pressure should have been reduced to decrease the slight orange peel, or
textured, surface.

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