The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7495 p362
29 March 2008

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When capsules are disguised tablets

From Dr M.-L. Truong, MRPharmS

Further to Stephen Carey’s comments (PJ, 23 February, p214), it is usually expected that an omeprazole capsule contains either powder, granules or liquid. Doctors prescribe them because they offer an alternative to tablets. Does a tablet become a capsule by dint of being inserted into one? For me the answer is simple, tablets placed within a capsules are not capsules: they are merely disguised tablets.

As pharmacists, we do not want to have to look inside capsules to make sure that we are really dispensing capsules. This manufacturing method is misleading and should be abandoned.

Minh-Loc Truong
Coventry

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