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US 6,183,808 B2Granted
Film coatings and film coating compositions based on dextrin
AssigneeBPSI Holdings, Inc.
InventorsSusan M. Grillo, Brian Korchok, Bruce Kinsey, Stuart C. Porter, George Reyes, Thomas J. Burke, Charles Cunningham
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Abstract
A dry film coating composition for forming a coating suspension for film coating nutritional supplements, pharmaceutical tablets, and the like, comprising a dextrin and a detackifier.
Claims11
A method of coating substrates with a film coating comprising the steps of
- mixing a tapioca dextrin and a detackifier into water to form an aqueous coating suspension, the tapioca dextrin being 5% to 97% by weight of the non-water ingredients of the aqueous coating suspension, and the detackifier being 1% to 15% by weight of the non-water ingredients of the aqueous coating suspension, applying an effective amount of said coating suspension onto said substrates to form a film coating on said substrates, and drying the film coating on said substrates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.