DISINTEGRATION TESTER
Ensures Tablets Break Down in Under 15 Minutes
Still remember the story of taking a pill for a fever? We talked about how a dissolution tester ensures the medicine dissolves fully, ready for your body to absorb. But before that happens, there’s another important step — breaking the pill down. That’s where the disintegration tester comes in.
The disintegration tester is like the pill’s first test. It checks how quickly the tablet crumbles into smaller particles in a liquid that mimics your stomach. If the pill doesn’t break apart properly, it won’t release its medicine effectively, no matter how well it dissolves later.
Once the disintegration tester gives the green light, the dissolution tester takes over, ensuring the active ingredient dissolves into the liquid, ready to be absorbed into your bloodstream. These two machines work together, step by step, to make sure the pills you take deliver exactly what they promise — from breaking down to bringing you relief.
A disintegration tester checks how quickly a tablet or capsule crumbles in a liquid, mimicking conditions in the stomach. It works by moving the tablet up and down in warm liquid to see if it breaks apart within the required time. This ensures the medicine is safe, effective, and meets quality standards.
A disintegration tester works by placing tablets or capsules in small baskets that move up and down in a liquid, simulating stomach conditions. The liquid, warmed to body temperature, surrounds the tablet to test if it breaks apart within a set time. If the tablet crumbles into smaller particles, the test is marked as successful, ensuring the medicine is ready to release its active ingredients.
Further explanation of how dissintegration tester works is in this video:
A dissolution tester measures how much and how quickly the active ingredient (API) dissolves in a liquid, simulating drug release in the body. A disintegration tester measures how fast a tablet or capsule breaks into smaller pieces in a liquid, without assessing how much of the API dissolves. The key difference is that dissolution focuses on the release of the drug, while disintegration focuses on the physical breakdown of the dosage form.