Fifth Edition
edited by Raymond Rowe
Paul Sheskey and Sian Owen

The Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients is a comprehensive guide to the uses, properties and safety of pharmaceutical excipients and is an essential reference for those involved in the development, production, control or regulation of pharmaceutical preparations.

Features of Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients

• Collects together essential data on the physical properties of excipients
• Scanning electron microphotographs included for many excipients
• Information from numerous international sources
• Information on the safe use and potential toxicity of the materials
• All entries in the Handbook aare thoroughly cross-referenced and indexed so that excipients may be identified by either chemical, non-proprietary or trade names
• Written by more than 120 pharmaceutical scientists expert in pharmaceutical formulation or excipient manufacture

New for the Fifth edition of Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients:

• Completely revised and updated
• More than 275 excipient monographs
• 32 new excipient monographs including:
  • Erythritol
  • Hypromellose Acetate Succinate
  • Neohesperidine
  • Raffinose
  • Sulfobutyl Beta-cyclodextrin
  • Thaumatin

View the companion Pharmaceutical Excipients 2005 Single User CD-ROM to the Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients 5th Edition.

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