If you are working in the tablet manufacturing area of the pharmaceutical industry then it is your routine practice that you deal with different types of the pharmaceutical calculations.Out of these calculations the determination of tablet compression weight is a very basic and important calculation which is performed on a daily basis.
Many freshers working in pharmaceutical industries are not aware of how to determine the tablet compression weight from the provided data. This means if you are given the batch size in kilograms and the number of tablets then how will you calculate the tablet compression weight?
In this article, we will learn how you can calculate the tablet compression weight from specific provided data.
Suppose that you are in the production department and you are asked to calculate the tablet compression weight and you have the following data,
Product ‘A’ has a batch size of 50 kilograms and in terms of numbers, we have 250,000 tablets. How will you calculate or determine the weight at which these tablets will be compressed?
Calculation
The calculation is very simple and we will use the following formula to calculate the tablet compression weight,
Batch size in milligrams ÷ Batch size in number
In our provided data we have a batch size in kilograms so first of all we will convert kilograms into milligrams for this we will multiply 50 kg by 1000 which will be converted into grams and again it will be multiplied by 1000 and will be converted into milligrams. Now we will use this value in our formula as follows
Tablet compression weight = 50 × 1000 × 1000 ÷ 250,000 = 200 mg
Conclusion
The individual tablet compression weight will be 200 mg for a batch size of 50 kg and 200,000 tablets.
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