Natural and Modified Excipients in Novel Drug Delivery System: A Review

Modification of existing natural excipients has gain special attention in pharmaceutical industry and excipient technology for development of novel dosage forms with added functionality with the use of single multiple functionality excipient rather than using different excipients. It involves mixing and physical modification of two or more excipient to obtain desired functionality. The current review discusses about the importance of modified excipients modification methods and various examples of co-processed excipients in the market.