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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Werner Brox, Beerfelden, DE;
Assignee:
R.P. Scherer Corporation, Troy, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424456 ; 424451 ; 424452 ; 424455 ;
Abstract
A pharmaceutical dosage unit form comprises one or more pharmaceutically active materials dissolved or suspended in a liquid polyethylene glycol and encapsulated in a soft gelatin capsule shell, in which the capsule shell comprises gelatin, a plasticizer therefor, and an embrittlement inhibiting composition comprising a mixture of sorbitol and at least one sorbitan. Preferably the polyethylene glycol also contains glycerin, sorbitol or propylene glycol.