„A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down” – Most people know this popular theme from the movie Mary Poppins. While this approach might work out in some cases, in reality it is often not so easy to turn drug substances into medicinal products that are easy to administer, comfortable and safe for the patient and ensure optimal therapeutic outcome.

The challenges associated include guaranteeing that the right dose is administered, that the patient is willing to take the medication more than once, that the drug is stable under the storage and administration conditions, that the quality of the medicinal product is appropriate covering the absence of harmful amounts of contaminants including microorganisms, that the drug reaches the target structure in the body at the right time and with the right amount, to name but a few.

Methods of pharmaceutical technologies are used in local and hospital pharmacies as well as pharmaceutical industry to extemporaneously compound individualized medicines or manufacture finished medicinal products to assure efficacy, safety, and quality of medicines. The necessary knowledge of the methods of pharmaceutical technology is a key qualification in pharmaceutical sciences.

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