Development of immediate release Rupatadine fumarate 10 mg tablets: A Quality by Design (QbD) approach.

Objective: The main objective of this research is to develop an immediate release Rupatadine fumarate 10 mg tablets formulation by direct compression, through a Quality by Design approach in Costa Rica. Methods: According to a Quality by Design approach; Target Product Profile, Quality Target Product Profile, and the Critical Quality Attributes were defined. In the preformulation study, compatibility tests were carried out between the raw materials. The Critical Material Attributes were established using Quality Risk Management. Three formulation prototypes were prepared by direct compression and its Critical Process Parameters were defined. The analysis of the prototypes was realized in terms of organoleptic properties, identification, potency, content uniformity, dissolution, disintegration, friability and loss by drying. Results: All the prototypes showed a white or slightly pink surface, potency between 90.0 -110.0 % of the labeling, an acceptance value for the content uniformity lower than the specification (AV < 15), the dissolved amount of active pharmaceutical ingredient was greater than 85.0 % at 30 minutes, friability less than 1.0 %, a disintegration time less than 15 minutes and moisture content less than 2.0 %. Conclusions: The approaching of a Quality by Design model to the current development allowed to obtain satisfactory results in the three formulation prototypes. The excipients to be used can be lactose monohydrate, microcrystalline cellulose, sodium croscarmellose, pregelatinized starch, magnesium stearate, stearic acid, and PVP K-30.

Identificación de dos formas polimórficas cristalinas de clopidogrel bisulfato en materia prima farmacéutica / Identification of two polymorphic forms of clopidogrel bisulphate crystal in pharmaceutical raw materials

Introducción: el clopidogrel bisulfato existe en numerosas formas cristalinas, que varían en su estabilidad fisicoquímica, por lo que algunas de estas formas, patentadas o no, son útiles en la fabricación de medicamentos. Objetivo: identificar las formas cristalinas existentes en dos muestras de clopidogrel bisulfato materia prima comercializadas para la fabricación de medicamentos y el estado de pureza de ambas muestras. Métodos: las muestras de materia prima se obtuvieron de una industria nacional. Se examinaron mediante técnicas analíticas avanzadas como difracción de rayos X, calorimetría diferencial de barrido, termogravimetría y espectroscopia infrarroja. Se compararon los valores encontrados con los del estado del arte reconocidos en la literatura revisada para el clopidogrel bisulfato materias primas y tomados como referencia. Resultados: se obtuvieron los difractogramas, termogramas y espectros de absorción correspondientes a las muestras analizadas. Se utilizó el software TA Universal Analysis para obtener el porcentaje de descomposición, punto de fusión y picos identificadores en las muestras. Conclusiones: la muestra 1 contiene la forma cristalina I del bisulfato de clopidogrel, que no es pura ya que existe una banda característica de la presencia de contaminación con la forma cristalina II. La muestra 2 corresponde a la forma cristalina II del producto en forma pura(AU)

Introduction: clopidogrel bisulphate exists in many crystalline forms that vary in their physicochemical stability: some of these forms either patented or not are useful in the drug production. Objective: to identify the existing crystalline forms in two samples of Clopidogrel bisufhate raw material for the drug and the purity index of both samples. Methods: the raw material samples were taken from a domestic industry. They were tested through advanced analytical techniques such as differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray scattering pattern, infrared spectroscopy and thermogravimetric analysis. The final values were then compared with the well-established state-of-the-art values found in the reviewed literature for the clopidrogrel bisulfate raw materials and accepted as reference. Results: the physicochemical parameters were obtained from the absorption spectra, thermograms and diffractograms. The TA Universal Analysis software yielded the percentage of decomposition, the melting points and the peak identifiers in the samples. Conclusions: its was concluded that the sample 1 contained the crystal form I of the Clopridogrel bisulfate that is not a pure one since there is a characteristic band indicating contamination with the crystalline form II. The sample 2 had the pure crystalline form II of the product(AU)