Applications of Moisture Analyzers in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmaceuticals are substances used to prevent, treat, or diagnose human diseases and to deliberately regulate physiological functions, with specified indications, functions, dosage, and administration. They include Chinese medicinal materials, Chinese herbal pieces, Chinese patent medicines, chemical APIs and their preparations, antibiotics, biochemical drugs, radiopharmaceuticals, sera, vaccines, blood products, and diagnostic drugs.

Pharmaceuticals are a special category of commodity

1. Variety and complexity: there are roughly 20,000 pharmaceutical products worldwide, including more than 5,000 traditional Chinese medicine preparations and about 4,000 Western medicine preparations in China alone—clear evidence of the great variety and complexity of pharmaceuticals.

2. Medical specialization: pharmaceuticals are not an independent commodity; they are closely tied to medical practice, each complementing the other. Patients can prevent disease and protect their health only through a physician's examination and diagnosis and rational medication under the guidance of physicians and licensed pharmacists.

3. Strict quality requirements: pharmaceuticals bear directly on human health and even life itself, so their quality allows no negligence. Safety, efficacy, uniformity, and stability must be guaranteed.

In pharmaceutical production, moisture content is a key quality indicator. The level of moisture directly affects product quality and shelf life, so moisture content must be strictly controlled and tested throughout production and quality control.

Various methods exist for measuring moisture content, and Karl Fischer titration is currently the most common approach in the pharmaceutical industry. The industry must measure moisture in numerous raw materials, intermediates, and finished products, and since samples vary widely in form(for example, finished drugs come as tablets, suppositories, freeze-dried forms, and various active substances), with water present in different states—free water and water of crystallization—and with drug components that can interfere with the measurement, the solvent and reagent must be chosen according to the physical and chemical properties of each drug.

VicoMeterWKT-A9coulometric Karl Fischer moisture analyzers andWKT-C9volumetric moisture analyzers are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.

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