This year sees the 25th anniversary of the first publication of the 'Handbook of pharmaceutical excipients', published jointly by Pharmaceutical Press and the American Pharmacists Association. Its editors explain how it has evolved Since the appearance of the first edition in 1986, the 'Handbook of pharmaceutical excipients' has continued to make an important contribution to the development of pharmaceutical dosage forms. It began in the 1970s as a result of the enthusiasm of a few UK and US pharmaceutical scientists who believed passionately in the need for a comprehensive English language data resource on excipients, due to considerable developments that were occurring in the field of pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical technology and product manufacture. Earlier, scientists working for Ciba-Geigy, Hoffman-La Roche and Sandoz Ltd, based in Switzerland, had produced a typescript document in 1974, entitled Katalog pharmazeutischer Hilfsstoffe (catalogue of pharmaceutical excipients), which contained German-language monographs for nearly 100 Swiss excipients.
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