UV imaging of Multiple Unit Pellet System (MUPS) tablets: A case study of acetylsalicylic acid stability

Anna Novikova, Jens Michael Carstensen, Thomas Rades, Claudia S. Leopold

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Abstract

The applicability of multispectral ultraviolet (UV) imaging in combination with multivariate image analysis was investigated to monitor API degradation within multiple unit pellet system (MUPS) tablets during storage. For this purpose, acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) layered pellets were coated with Eudragit® RL PO and compressed to MUPS tablets. These tablets were stored under four different conditions with different levels of relative humidity (0 and 75%) and temperature (21 and 40 °C) and analysed at seven storage time points (0, 15, 40, 140, 165, 265, and 330 d). The UV imaging results for estimation of the salicylic acid (SA) concentration as degradation product of ASA in the tablets were compared to the SA concentration measured by high performance liquid chromatography with a partial least squares regression resulting in an RMSEP of 4.86% and an R2 of 0.9812. The estimation of the SA concentration based on mean UV reflectance spectra was possible even through the coating of the API pellets and at low concentration levels. In addition, the distribution of the SA concentration on the tablet surfaces for different storage time periods was visualized. UV imaging as fast and non-destructive method appears to offer significant potential for monitoring of API degradation during stability studies.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
Volume119
Pages (from-to)447-453
ISSN0939-6411
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • API stability
  • HPLC
  • MUPS tablets
  • PLS
  • UV imaging
  • Multivariate Data Analysis

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