DISSOLUTION TESTER
Ensuring Over 85% of Oral Drugs Release Effectively
Imagine you’re battling a fever, and you take a pill. You trust it will ease your discomfort soon. But how does the medicine know when and how to work? That promise starts long before you ever take it — with a dissolution tester.
This machine ensures every pill delivers what it should. It simulates what happens in your stomach, checking how the tablet dissolves and releases the active ingredient. For a fast-acting drug, it ensures quick release. For a slow-release medicine, it confirms the steady, timed delivery your body needs.
Without the dissolution tester, that trust would falter. It guarantees that every pill, every time, fulfills its promise — to heal, to comfort, to work as intended. The next time you feel better after taking medicine, remember the machine that made it possible.
A dissolution tester checks how quickly and completely a drug dissolves from its form (like a tablet or capsule), similar to how it would dissolve in your body after you take it. This is important to ensure the drug can be absorbed properly and work effectively. The test confirms the release of the active ingredient, helps in developing new products, ensures quality, and meets regulatory standards.
A dissolution test works by simulating how a drug dissolves in the body after being taken. The drug (tablet, capsule, etc.) is placed in a liquid that mimics stomach or intestinal fluids. The tester stirs the liquid using a paddle or rotates a basket holding the drug, measuring how much and how quickly the drug dissolves over time. This helps ensure the drug releases its active ingredient properly, making it effective and safe to use. The results are compared against standards to check for quality and consistency.
Further explanation of how dissolution tester works is in this video:
