Clinical trial supplies blinding

Clinical trial supplies can be blinded using several techniques depending on the availability of resources and the consideration of competitor companies. The ideal situation is to produce a placebo or comparator product that looks and behaves in an identical fashion to its active test counterpart, for example, the same colour, weight, shape, size, markings, texture and... 

Capsugel produce a range of specially sized opaque capsules specifically for the encapsulation of tablets for double blind clinical trial supplies. The capsules are wider than standardsized capsules to allow larger diameter tablets to be filled but have shorter bodies to retain patient acceptability/tolerability. 

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