Chewing gum comprising nicotine
AssigneeFertin Pharma A/S
InventorJesper Neergaard
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Abstract
A nicotine chewing gum is disclosed, the nicotine chewing gum having gum base polymers, nicotine, and microcrystalline cellulose as a carrier for the nicotine, the gum base polymers include polyvinyl acetate and vinyl laurate-vinyl acetate copolymer in an amount of more than 90% by weight of the gum base polymers, and the gum base polymers include 20-95% by weight of polyvinyl acetate and 5-80% by weight of vinyl laurate-vinyl acetate copolymer. Also, a method for producing a nicotine chewing gum is disclosed.
Claims21
A nicotine chewing gum comprising gum base polymers, nicotine, and microcrystalline cellulose as a carrier for the nicotine,
- the gum base polymers comprising polyvinyl acetate and vinyl laurate-vinyl acetate copolymer in an amount of more than 90% by weight of the gum base polymers, and
- wherein the gum base polymers include 20-95% by weight of polyvinyl acetate and 5-80% by weight of vinyl laurate-vinyl acetate copolymer.
A method of producing a nicotine chewing gum, said method comprising the steps of
- adding nicotine to microcrystalline cellulose to obtain a nicotine-microcrystalline cellulose mixture,
- adding the nicotine-microcrystalline cellulose mixture to chewing gum mass, wherein the nicotine chewing gum comprises gum base polymers, nicotine, and microcrystalline cellulose as a carrier for the nicotine,
- the gum base polymers comprising polyvinyl acetate and vinyl laurate-vinyl acetate copolymer in an amount of more than 90% by weight, and
- wherein the gum base polymers include 20-95% by weight of polyvinyl acetate and 5-80% by weight of vinyl laurate-vinyl acetate copolymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.