Active ingredients improving efficiency

Encapsulation involves the incorporation of active ingredients such as flavors, enzymes, cells or other materials in small capsules. The choice of excipients for encapsulation is very important for the encapsulation efficiency and protein stability within the matrix. Applications of this technique have increased in the food and pharmaceutical industries since the encapsulated materials can be protected from moisture, heat or other extreme conditions. Thus their stability is improved and their viability maintained. Powder formation can lower the water activity of the material, the reactivity and the diffusivity of encapsulated compounds, and the diffusivity of residual water. In the food industry microencapsulation is often associated with the already discussed retention of flavor compounds during drying and storage. In pharmaceutical applications, the purpose of microencapsulation is to control the release and improve the bioavailability of active ingredients. 

Dissolution Profile SEPIFILM LP can efficiently improve the moisture barrier on moisture-sensitive active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) or hygroscopic cores. The breakthrough in this technology is that SEPIFILM LP does not modify the dissolution profile when compared to conventional coating (Figure 30). 

Finally, the details of how an active catalyst is formed from the various ingredients that go into a reaction mixture are often overlooked. But understanding these processes can dramatically improve reaction efficiency and effectiveness. Once again, PSl-MS can provide an expedient way to examine these processes. The preparation of [Pd(PPh3)2(Ar)(l)] from [Pd(tmeda)(Ar)(l)],... 

The polysaccharide contents of seaweeds vary according to the species. Generally, these polysaccharides have been extracted using water or aqueous organic solvents (Albuquerque et ah, 2004). However, as the cell wall consists of complex polymers, it is not easy to extract active polysaccharides using solvent extraction process. The production of different bioactive polysaccharides with lyases is required in order to increase the extraction efficiency of more functional ingredients from seaweeds. Therefore, enzyme-assisted extraction technique can be employed as an alternative method to improve the extraction efficiency of bioactive polysaccharides for industrial use (Athukorala et ah, 2009 Kang et ah, 2011). 

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