How to Judge the Quality of Empty Capsules?

Empty capsule is a kind of drug packaging material, its role is to effectively cover up the bad taste and smell of drugs, prevent drug volatilization and prevent some drugs from decomposition in the mouth. It can reduce the irritation of drugs to the esophagus and stomach mucosa and protect the respiratory and digestive systems. In addition, some drugs need to be absorbed in the intestine, and the capsule shell allows the drug to pass through the gastric juices without being dissolved.

So we can see that an empty capsule is related to drug safety and drug effects and the quality of is empty capsule is very important for all people. If you are an empty capsule customer from a pharmaceutical company, do you know how to judge the quality of the empty capsule?

To check the empty capsule quality, you can test the quality by machine and pay attention to below points:

1) The rate of breakage rate, needs to be within 1%
2) Checking if there is a flying cap during filling
3) Whether the cap and body can be pulled out
4) Whether the cutting edge of the cap and body is orderly and smooth
5) Checking the hardness of the empty capsule.

As a professional empty capsule manufacturer in China and we mainly produce gelatin capsules and HPMC capsules. The quality pass rate can reach 99.9%. to guarantee the quality, we have our own comprehensive quality-controlling process.

A. We have strict and systematic quality control for raw materials. Checking each batch of raw material and keeping detailed records. if there is any quality problem with the finished empty capsule, we can trace back which batch of the raw material.

B. Once the empty capsules are finished, they will be sieved by the sieve machine first to get rid of the unqualified ones.

C. Secondly, they will be inspected by computer one by one. And these empty capsules with not good shape, size, and other visible defects will be picked out automatically and efficiently.

D. Then they will also check manually. Our workers will inspect the empty capsule with very strong light to pick out any missing unqualified pieces.
E. Finally, every batch of capsules will be tested in our own laboratory to guarantee our empty capsule is safe and healthy.

The empty capsule is so important and relevant to pharmaceutical products. It provides a lot of convenience for patients and treatment. how to distinguish the quality of empty capsules is crucial to implement these functions. If you have any questions about empty capsule inspecting, you can contact us at info@asiangelatin.com or review below video.