Developing a Modular Continuous Drug Product Manufacturing System with Real Time Quality Assurance for Producing Pharmaceutical Mini-Tablets

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The pharmaceutical industry has shown keen interest in developing small-scale modular manufacturing systems for producing medicinal products. These systems offer agile and flexible manufacturing, and are well-suited for use in situations requiring rapid production of drugs such as pandemics and humanitarian disasters. The creation of such systems requires the development of modular facilities for making solid oral drug products. In recent years, however, the development of such facilities has seen limited progress. This study presents a development of a prototype modular system that uses drop on demand (DoD) printing to produce personalized solid oral drug products. The system's operation is demonstrated for manufacturing mini-tablets, a category of pediatric drug products, in continuous and semi-batch modes. In this process, the DoD printer is used to generate molten formulation drops that are solidified into mini-tablets. These dosages are then extracted, washed and dried in a continuous filtration and drying unit which is integrated with the printer. Process monitoring tools are also incorporated in the system to track the critical quality attributes of the product and the critical process parameters of the manufacturing operation in real time. Future areas of innovation are also proposed to improve this prototype unit and to enable the development of advanced drug manufacturing systems based on this platform.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:113

Enthalten in:

Journal of pharmaceutical sciences - 113(2024), 4 vom: 18. Apr., Seite 937-947

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sundarkumar, Varun [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Wanning [VerfasserIn]
Mills, Madeline [VerfasserIn]
Oh, Sue Wei [VerfasserIn]
Nagy, Zoltan [VerfasserIn]
Reklaitis, Gintaras [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

3D printing
Continuous manufacturing
Journal Article
Modularization
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Pharmaceutical mini-tablets
Real time monitoring
Tablets

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Date Completed 19.03.2024

Date Revised 02.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.xphs.2023.09.024

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362825548