Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients

Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients

FIF TH EDITION 

Edited by

Raymond C Rowe

BPharm, PhD, DSc, FRPharmS, CChem, FRSC, CPhys, MInstP

Chief Scientist Intelligensys Ltd Billingham, UK

Paul J Sheskey

BSc, RPh

Technical Services Leader

The Dow Chemical Company Midland

MI, USA

Siaˆn C Owen

BSc, MA

 Development Editor

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain London, UK

London . Chicago  

Published by the Pharmaceutical Press

Publications division of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

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and the American Pharmacists Association

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Ⓒ Pharmaceutical Press and American Pharmacists Association 2006

  is a trademark of Pharmaceutical Press First published 1986

Second edition published 1994 Third edition published 2000 Fourth edition published 2003 Fifth edition published 2006

Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome, Somerset Typeset by Data Standards Ltd, Frome, Somerset

ISBN 0 85369 618 7 (UK)

ISBN 1 58212 058 7 (USA)

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