Pharmaceutical products packaging configuration

If hydrolysis is expected to be an issue, desiccants can be a valuable addition to the packaging scheme. The rate and capacity for water adsorption of desiccants will vary depending on the type of adsorbent and the configuration (i.e., canister vs. sachet). Table 9 summarizes various desiccant options for use with pharmaceutical products (63). 

The scope of the project includes not only the definition of the final product deliverable but the level of work effort required to complete this project. For example, a new pharmaceutical drug will be used to reduce long-term intractable pain, will be in an injectable form, and will use existing packaging configurations in defined concentrations and formulations. This is an initial, general definition of the product scope. The project scope, however, is much more time consuming and complex to develop and would include ... 

Already, chemistry is turning into a computerized subject, where mathematical modeling of molecules is just as important as molecular synthesis or chemical analysis. The structure of molecules can be worked out from the interatomic potentials using computer packages which are continuously under development at the large pharmaceutical companies (Section 5.3). The configurations of molecules, their reactions, and products will ultimately be predictable through the computer. 

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