PMID- 29305693 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180720 LR - 20181202 IS - 1530-9932 (Electronic) IS - 1530-9932 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 3 DP - 2018 Apr TI - A Scale-up Approach for Film Coating Process Based on Surface Roughness as the Critical Quality Attribute. PG - 1243-1253 LID - 10.1208/s12249-017-0940-9 [doi] AB - Scale-up approaches for film coating process have been established for each type of film coating equipment from thermodynamic and mechanical analyses for several decades. The objective of the present study was to establish a versatile scale-up approach for film coating process applicable to commercial production that is based on critical quality attribute (CQA) using the Quality by Design (QbD) approach and is independent of the equipment used. Experiments on a pilot scale using the Design of Experiment (DoE) approach were performed to find a suitable CQA from surface roughness, contact angle, color difference, and coating film properties by terahertz spectroscopy. Surface roughness was determined to be a suitable CQA from a quantitative appearance evaluation. When surface roughness was fixed as the CQA, the water content of the film-coated tablets was determined to be the critical material attribute (CMA), a parameter that does not depend on scale or equipment. Finally, to verify the scale-up approach determined from the pilot scale, experiments on a commercial scale were performed. The good correlation between the surface roughness (CQA) and the water content (CMA) identified at the pilot scale was also retained at the commercial scale, indicating that our proposed method should be useful as a scale-up approach for film coating process. FAU - Yoshino, Hiroyuki AU - Yoshino H AD - Pharmaceutical Research & Technology Laboratories, Astellas Pharma Inc., 180 Ozumi, Yaizu, Shizuoka, 425-0072, Japan. AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan. FAU - Hara, Yuko AU - Hara Y AD - Pharmaceutical Research & Technology Laboratories, Astellas Pharma Inc., 180 Ozumi, Yaizu, Shizuoka, 425-0072, Japan. FAU - Dohi, Masafumi AU - Dohi M AD - Pharmaceutical Research & Technology Laboratories, Astellas Pharma Inc., 180 Ozumi, Yaizu, Shizuoka, 425-0072, Japan. FAU - Yamashita, Kazunari AU - Yamashita K AD - Pharmaceutical Research & Technology Laboratories, Astellas Pharma Inc., 180 Ozumi, Yaizu, Shizuoka, 425-0072, Japan. FAU - Hakomori, Tadashi AU - Hakomori T AD - Pharmaceutical Research & Technology Laboratories, Astellas Pharma Inc., 180 Ozumi, Yaizu, Shizuoka, 425-0072, Japan. FAU - Kimura, Shin-Ichiro AU - Kimura SI AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan. FAU - Iwao, Yasunori AU - Iwao Y AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan. FAU - Itai, Shigeru AU - Itai S AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8526, Japan. s-itai@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180105 PL - United States TA - AAPS PharmSciTech JT - AAPS PharmSciTech JID - 100960111 RN - 0 (Tablets) RN - 059QF0KO0R (Water) SB - IM MH - Drug Compounding/methods MH - Pilot Projects MH - Surface Properties MH - Tablets/*chemistry MH - Water/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - appearance OT - critical material attribute OT - critical quality attribute OT - film coating OT - scale-up EDAT- 2018/01/07 06:00 MHDA- 2018/07/22 06:00 CRDT- 2018/01/07 06:00 PHST- 2017/08/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/12/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/01/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/07/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/01/07 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1208/s12249-017-0940-9 [pii] AID - 10.1208/s12249-017-0940-9 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - AAPS PharmSciTech. 2018 Apr;19(3):1243-1253. doi: 10.1208/s12249-017-0940-9. Epub 2018 Jan 5.