Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Its Industrial Definitions

Pharmaceutical manufacturing undergoes a series of steps to manufacture a single medicine. The entire production process is complete when all the steps are properly completed. These steps are design conception, development, withdrawal, processing, refinement, packaging, delivery and storage. Pharmaceutical manufacturing plants undergo this hierarchy of steps to produce essential medicines and other pharmaceutical products.
The entire procedure of pharmaceutical manufacturing can be divided into two major units. The first one is called as primary processing stage that involves the manufacture of active drug ingredients. This step also includes several research facilities which are done by skilled and talented pharmaceutical engineers to provide efficient pharmaceutical ingredients.
The second unit is called secondary processing stage which mainly deals with conversion of active pharmaceutical ingredients into desired medicines. Hence, this step includes final drug processing steps to generate out products that can be used as pharmaceutical products in several healthcare units for the administration of sufferers suffering from various health disorders.
The final pharmaceutical products are in various forms including solid, semi-solid and aqueous forms. Some of the common solid forms are capsules, tablets, ointments, creams etc. Liquid pharmaceuticals are available in forms like gels, solutions, suspensions, emulsions and injectables. There are various inhalable products and aerosols also that contain chlorofluorocarbons and butane and are exclusively for external use only.
The major manufactured drugs include vitamins, antibiotics, various synthetic hormones and drugs, glandular products, vaccines and other pharmaceutical products. These plants also manufacture the safety and dressing materials, safety equipments that ensure the complete safety of the workers engaged in these plants.

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