The substance was also used in making candles of a standard photometric value, in the dressing of fabrics, and as a pharmaceutical excipient, especially in cerates and ointments.
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In addition to drugs, the USAN Council names agents for gene therapy and cell therapy, contact lens polymers, surgical materials, diagnostics, carriers, and substances used as an excipient.
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Apart from that BASF-affiliated source, there's another source not mentioning PEG-PVA at all, apparently cited as a source of the definition of the word " excipient ".
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The Federation of IPEC, a pharmaceutical regulatory non-profit, develops, implements, and promotes global use of appropriate quality, safety, and functionality standards for pharmaceutical excipients and excipient delivery systems.
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In the EU azorubine is authorized for use in certain foods and beverages, such as cheeses, dried fruit, and some alcoholic beverages, and is permitted for use as an excipient in medications.
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"' Hypromellose "'( semisynthetic, inert, viscoelastic polymer used as eye drops, as well as an excipient and controlled-delivery component in oral medicaments, found in a variety of commercial products.
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Allergy to macrogol is rare, and usually appears as an allergy to an increasing number of seemingly unrelated products, including cosmetics, drugs that use it as an excipient, and peri-procedural substances such as ultrasound gel.
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Meanwhile, in the intervening period, scientists at the former GlaxoWellcome Inc . had conducted further research and developed a proprietary buffer excipient formulation intended to mitigate the mast cell degranulation seen upon rapid intravenous administration of high concentration doses of agents such as GW280430A that are intrinsically cationic.
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For what I understood, some substances are not easily absorbed unless they are mixed with another appropriate substance, so the excipient is also somehow part of the medicine ( not just there to bulk up the real active medicine ) . talk ) 12 : 44, 29 November 2012 ( UTC)
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:That particular source isn't a very usable source in and of itself to expand the stub article PEG-PVA, being a primary article describing the author's own research, especially as the author works for BASF, the manufacturer of " Kollicoat IR " brand PEG-PVA excipient.
