Let us get into a few details about the pharmaceutical raw materials and find out some important and interesting facts about them.

2.  Pharmaceutical industry has a lot of constraints and specialties
which make it stand on a completely different scale than any
other industries. Being closely related to the medical field and
also complementary to it, the pharmaceutical industry needs
utmost care and precision in each and every aspect of the field
ranging from collecting the raw materials to getting the final
product ready for supply in the market.
 Let us get into a few details about the pharmaceutical raw
materials and find out some important and interesting facts
about them.

3. The raw materials used in the pharmaceutical industry are
categorized into 3 major types. They are:
 Raw Materials of Excipients
 Raw Materials of API
 Raw Materials of Packaging

4.  Anyone with a good touch in the pharmaceutical industry will
be very much familiar with all these categories. This
categorization will clearly distinct the materials from each other
and also make it possible for us to have a clear line of
distinction between the materials that can be handled separately.
Also, these pharmaceutical raw materials are generally supplied
to the pharmaceutical manufacturing industries category wise to
be sure of the materials being used and produced.

5.  Excipients are also called drug carriers. They are the carrier
materials and are definitely part of any drug. It is a commonly
known fact that the drugs we use contain only a very tiny part
of actual drug that effects the bodily changes. The remaining
part is only a carrier which we call the excipient in pharma
terms.

6.  The pharmaceutical raw materials used for excipients include
solvents and other carriers which are capable of carrying the
actual drug. This excipient should not affect the chemical
features of the API. Guidelines for a material to qualify as an
excipient are formulated and proposed by the international
pharmaceutical standards.

7.  API refers to Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient. This is the
actual part of the drug that is responsible for the drug action.
Precision and accuracy are a must for the raw materials used for
making the API.

8.  Any small deviation in the composition can lead to drastic loss
to the pharmaceutical industry. This is the raw material that has
to be dealt with the most care and concern. The pharmaceutical
industries’ R&D plays an important role in choosing the proper
API raw materials.

9.  Even the packaging in the pharmaceutical industry have to be
prefect and precise. Raw materials used for pharmaceutical
packaging include plastic & polymers, glass, paper, aluminum
foil and paper boards etc. These are used in making most of the
packaging used in pharma. Because of the diversified products
being used as raw materials, even packaging is made a separate
category.

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