Roko manufactures pharmaceutical agar grades which can be used as emulsifying agents, stabilizing agents, suppository base, suspending agents; sustained release agents, tablet binder and thickening agents.
Our pharmaceutical agar grades include:
– Rokoagar EPh which complies with the quality standards of the Official Monography of the European Pharmacopoeia (Eur. Ph.).
– Rokogar USP/NF which complies with the quality standards of the Official Monography of the United States Pharmacopoeia/National Formulary (USP/NF).
Customized pharmaceutical agar grades are also available.
Pharmaceutical agars are used as excipient in many pharmaceutical industry applications: as an active ingredient carrier, for tablet and capsule manufacturing, for the preparation of emulsions, suspensions, suppositories and surgical lubricants, and as a suspending agent for radiological barium sulphate.