Prednisone
CONDITIONS:
242nm
500 ml Deionized Water
30 minutes
Absorptivity is usually 44-45
Prednisone tips
Prednisone: a disintegrating tablet. Highly affected by mechanical
parameters and vessels. Recently reformulated to be sensitive to
poorly deaerated media.
Prednisone, according to the Pharma study, when tested by paddles
at 50 RPMs, is operationally sensitive to several perturbations,
including: centering, vibration, shaft wobble, shaft verticality, and
degassing.
There have been many concerns about the new lot of Prednisone Lot
M. Many have stated that their systems that routinely passed, will no
longer easily pass. Recently Tahseen Mirza, formerly of the USP,
posted suggestions on line. Here are his suggestions to eliminate any
problems.
- Clean the dissolution vessels thoroughly- concentrated acid,
methanol, soap and de-ionized water
- Make sure that the vessel walls are not scratched.
- Conduct a filtration study to determine if there is adsorption
on the filter membrane.
- Use the degassing procedure described in the USP, (Helium
sparging might not work it only replaces oxygen with helium.) Do
not let the medium sit too long prior to dropping the tablets and
do not stir the paddles to accelerate temperature
equilibration.
- Check the paddle height and centering before and after the
test.
- Check calculations and make sure that the standard is being
prepared properly.
Recently one lab wrote in because they had a problem with
prednisone calibration. Construction outside of the facility caused
infrequent vibration. The construction effect gave higher result of
prednisone during calibration
Another lab wrote in because they had been degassing with helium.
They suddenly had a problem with prednisone calibration. They
switched to vacuum filtration for degassing and all passed
perfectly!
Literature cited: Dissolution Technologies November 2000.
Tahseen Mirza, Q+A:
http://www.dissolutiontech.com/DTresour/1100ART/1100Q%26A.htm
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