pharmaceutics Review Challenges of Dissolution Methods Development for Soft Gelatin Capsules Festo Damian 1, Mohammad Harati 2, Jeff Schwartzenhauer 3, Owen Van Cauwenberghe 1,4 and Shawn D. Wettig 1,5,* 1 School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada;
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[email protected] 4 Bio Therapeutic Molecules Inc., 70 Southgate Drive, Unit 4, Guelph, ON N1G 4P5, Canada 5 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada * Correspondence:
[email protected]; Tel.: +1-519-888-4567 (ext. 42221) Abstract: Recently, the development of soft gelatin capsules (SGCs) dosage forms has attracted a great deal of interest in the oral delivery of poorly water-soluble drugs. This is attributed to the increased number of poorly soluble drugs in the pipeline, and hence the challenges of finding innovative ways of developing bioavailable and stable dosage forms. Encapsulation of these drugs into SGCs is one of the approaches that is utilized to deliver the active ingredients to the systemic circulation to overcome certain formulation hurdles. Once formulated, encapsulated drugs in the form of SGCs require suitable in vitro dissolution test methods to ensure drug product quality and Citation: Damian, F.; Harati, M.; Schwartzenhauer, J.; Van performance. This review focuses on challenges facing dissolution test method development for Cauwenberghe, O.; Wettig, S.D.