Language v Technology? (cont'd)
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E-drug: Tablets: "Chewable" or "To be chewed" - Language v Technology? (cont'd)
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The European Pharmacopoeia does not have any particular information on
chewable tablets except that it is stated under coated and uncoated
tablets that chewable tablets are not required to comply with the
disintegration test. I agree with Murtada that chewable does not mean
that it has to be chewed. I would interpret it as meaning can be chewed
if the patient prefer so. Now, looking at what the EU Pharmacopoeia says
about not having to comply with the disintegration test, I fear
manufacturers could label them 'to be chewed' to avoid having to do the
test. In which case you risk, by not chewing them, that they do not
disintegrate properly if swallowed whole?
Ms Kirsten Myhr, MScPharm, MPH
Head
RELIS �st Regional Drug Info and ADR Monitoring Centre
Ullev�l University Hospital
0407 OSLO, Norway
Tel: +47 23 01 64 11 Fax: +47 23 01 64 10
myhr@online.no
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