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Palatable Drug Products Defined – It’s More Than Yuck and Yum

Posted by Jeff Worthington on November 18, 2016

By: Jeff Worthington – Senopsys President and Founder Regulations in the United States and European Union are incentivizing (via pediatric exclusivity) and requiring the development of pediatric medicine. These regulations are designed to ensure that every new drug will be evaluated for use in pediatric patients and studied in this population when appropriate. A key

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Senopsys/BMS 2016 AAPS Presentation – A Structured Taste Masking Process for Developing Palatable Pediatric Chewable Tablets

Posted by David Tisi on November 14, 2016

Senopsys and Bristol-Myers Squibb presented results of a process used to develop palatable pediatric chewable tablet formulations for two APIs with different taste masking challenges. Development followed a two-stage design: Stage 1 – Taste Assessment to quantify the taste masking challenge. Stage 2 – Taste Optimization following a sensory-directed formulation development approach. Click here to

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What Flavor is Most Effective in Masking a Bitter Taste?

Posted by David Tisi on July 20, 2016
What Flavor is Most Effective in Masking a Bitter Taste?

By: David Tisi – Senopsys Technical Director Many Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) are bitter, some extremely so. Often a formulator’s first reaction to taste masking is to add a “flavor” to the formulation to mask the bitterness. This approach to taste making is not usually successful because of differences in the physiology of taste and

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Developing Palatable Drug Products: A Decision Framework and Guide for CDMOs

Posted by Jeff Worthington on July 1, 2016

By: Jeff Worthington – Senopsys President and Founder Many drug actives are bitter or have other aversive attributes that require effective taste masking. Senopsys penned an article for Contract Pharma that describes the framework for developing palatable drug products advanced by the AAPS Pediatric Formulations Task Force. The framework is a decision-tree that identifies the

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