Carolina Diaz Quijano, PhD, is manager of Innovation and Technical Marketing Nutra/Pharma at Omya International AG, Baslerstrasse 42, 4665 Oftringen, Switzerland, info.pharma@omya.com.
A Multifunctional Mineral Excipient
Functionalized calcium carbonate provides high porosity, which enables fast disintegration, and excellent compactibility that results in harder tablets at low compression forces.