March 28, 2017

Gastrotab

TECHNOLOGY DEFINITION

GASTROTAB® is a technology, developed by S.I.I.T. Nutritional Division, based on using coating agents that avoid the destruction by the digestive enzyme in the stomach, of the active nutrients contained in the tablets.
The tablets will dissolve in a short term in the intestine to allow the nutrients activity; the tablets are covered with food agents materials able to resist between 2 and 4 hours to gastric juice and then they will be dissolved in the intestine within one hour.

BENEFITS

GASTROTAB® technology application benefits are:
1. Achieve targeted release at specific part along the intestine tract
2. Reduction of needed doses to obtain an equivalent therapeutical effect
3. Better relationship Q/P (Quality/Price)

TYPES OF APPLICATIONS

GASTROTAB® tecnology can be applied to finished products in tablets.

REGULATORY STATUS

Each application of GASTROTAB® on finished products is branded and could be protected by patents issued or pending.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Production capacity (per day):
• Tablets, film or sugar coated tablets, modified-release tablets, chewable and effervescent (3 Mio)
Packaging (production capacity per day):

• Blister in PVC/PVDC or in aluminium/aluminium foil (500.000 units)
• Strips in paper, aluminium, polithene or aluminium polithene (200.000 units)
• Bottles in PVC, PE and glass (10.000 units)