Latest Excipients Stories

HARLEYSVILLE, Pa., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Colorcon Inc., announces StarCap 1500® a co-processed excipient has recently gained precedence of use within the European Union (EU) in an approved drug product. StarCap 1500 is comprised of both corn starch and pregelatinized starch and is designed specifically for use in pharmaceutical applications, such as tablets and capsules. Corn starch and partially pregelatinized starch are commonly used excipients in oral solid dosage...

Industrial workers who have been chronically exposed to silica dust are at substantially higher risk of death from all causes than workers who have not been exposed. Furthermore, the risk of death, especially from lung and cardiovascular diseases increases with increasing exposure, according to a study from Chinese researchers published in this week's PLoS Medicine. The researchers, led by Weihong Chen from the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, at Huazhong University of...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:CPIX) announced today that it will release its first quarter 2012 results after the market closes on Thursday, May 3, 2012. A conference call and live Internet webcast will be held on Thursday, May 3, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the results. To participate in the call, please dial 877-303-1298 (for U.S. callers) or 253-237-1032 (for international callers). A rebroadcast of the...

COBHAM, England, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Following stories in today's media, Cargill wishes to clarify that the Italian Ministry of Health declared on 28 March 2012 that it was not sorbitol powder but sodium nitrite which caused the unexpected death in Puglia, South Italy on the 24th March 2012. Cargill does not produce or use sodium nitrite at its starches and sweeteners plants. The Italian authorities are now investigating how the sodium nitrite entered...

Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and great strength has yielded an amazing new material so buoyant that, in everyday terms, a boat made from 1 pound of the substance could carry five kitchen refrigerators, about 1,000 pounds. One of the lightest solid substances in the world, which is also sustainable, it was among the topics of a symposium held Sunday at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical...

SILVER SPRING, Md., March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a historic open letter to the World Health Organization and other public health agencies, the Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs (CoMeD), and the United Methodist Women are seeking to stop the use of mercury in human drugs, especially vaccines. Currently, the mercury-based preservative Thimerosal, which is 49% mercury by weight, remains in vaccines for the United States and much of the world, despite the fact that it is a...

Biologists at Bielefeld University have developed a new method for quantifying the effect of non-native species on ecosystem functioning They can estimate whether native plants in the neighbourhood of invasive species incorporate the nitrogen fixed by the latter. The biologists examined the Sydney Golden Wattle (Acacia longifolia), an Australian shrub that has established itself in Mediterranean climates worldwide. They found that the invasive species threatens native ecosystems not only...

Genetic mutations to cellulose in plants could improve the conversion of cellulosic biomass into biofuels, according to a research team that included two Iowa State University chemists. Mei Hong, an Iowa State professor of chemistry and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and Tuo Wang, an Iowa State graduate student in chemistry, contributed their expertise in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to the study. The study was led by Seth DeBolt,...