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Markets 8 Industry news 8 Calendar 46 Supplier news 47 People news 47 Spotlight on Nutraceuticals 32A TABLETS & CAPSULES coating Avoiding defects in film-coated tablets 12 Beverly Schad Issue focus: Coating 20 The advantages of fully automated dissolution testing 26 Kevin Whitkanack Test & inspection equipment: A survey of what's available 30 Maintain tablet quality by inspecting these critical points 33 Stephen Natoli Multi-layer tabletting: A survey of what's available 36 Eye on Excipients 39 David Kossor, Chris DeMerlis, Sakae Obara, April Hernandez, and Chris Moreton Back Page 48 Pankaj Rege Tablets & Capsules (ISSN 1549-9928 print; ISSN 1938-9159 online) is published eight times a year in January, March, April, May, July, September, October, and November by CSC Publishing, Inc., 1155 Northland Drive, Saint Paul, MN 55120. Periodicals postage paid at Saint Paul, MN, and additional mailing office. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Tablets & Capsules, 1155 Northland Drive, Saint Paul, MN 55120. departments w w w . t a b l e t s c a p s u l e s . c o m April 2014 Volume 12 Number 3 also in this issue Photo shows tablets inside a high-speed film coater. Company offers ready-to- use powders that you mix with water or an organic s o l vent and apply to tablets, pellets, granules, and capsules. One-step coating systems are suitable for use with pharmaceuticals and nutritional products and m e e t a l l r e g u l a t o r y requirements of the user's country. Company has ExciPact, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 certification. Courtesy of Biogrund, Sterling, VA. Tel. 312 286 0578. Website: www.biogrund.com. (This section appears four times yearly in issues delivered to our nutraceutical readership.) b-TOCFN_1-11_Masters 4/8/14 10:55 AM Page 2