• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.101-106
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to test the capacity of automatic tablet crusher. The Automatic tablet crusher not only saved crushing time, but also removed floating fine powders that was occurred during crushing and caused allergy. The characteristics of powder produced by this crusher were as follows: First, to meet the condition as powder after pulverizing 5∼10 g tablet it took 6 to 12 seconds crushing time. But six seconds would do to get powder f3r oral administration. Second, when the quantity of medicine was measured by HPLC, powder from automatic crusher showed higher than that from pestle. HPLC chromatogram indicated that there was no change of medicine in the process of pulverization.