Sheffield Pharma Ingredients - Pharmaceutical Excipient Experts

Sheffield™ Pharma Ingredients is a leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical grade lactose excipients for innovative drug delivery systems. We are committed to the continuing development of consistent, high quality products backed by unparalleled service, technical support and formulation customization capabilities. The company is a member of the Kerry Group.

LACTOSE – A SAFE PHARMACEUTICAL EXCIPIENT

Lactose is used on a large scale in the pharmaceutical industry:

• As a filler or diligent in capsules and tablets
• To provide bulk to powders
• In intravenous, intramuscular and subcutaneous injections
• As a carrier for inhalation products
• To increase plug size and aid caking of freeze-dried products
• In infant formulas and in sugar-coated solutions

Lactose is a safe pharmaceutical excipient for use in oral or inhalation formulations and is not likely to constitute any significant toxicological hazard to man. Lactose also can be applied as a nutrient and a multifunctional ingredient in infant formulas, geriatric, dietetic and health food. It may be also be used in culture media.

SHEFFIELD BRAND LACTOSE N.F.

Sheffield manufactures both the monohydrate and anhydrous forms of lactose, meeting NF / JP / EP monographs, in a variety of particle sizes.

Our lactose is used in a wide variety of product applications including:

• Direct compression - anhydrous milled and sieved lactose
• Wet granulation and capsules - monohydrate milled and sieved lactose
• Micronized drug carrier – inhalation milled and sieved lactose

LACTOSE ANHYDROUS DT - DIRECT TABLETING

Sheffield brand anhydrous lactose, N.F. - direct tableting is the original patented formulation that is the most outstanding and unique direct compression excipient available.

It features exceptional tableting properties and offers many distinct advantages over other direct compression products, including:

• Superior tablet hardness at low compaction pressures
• Low friability
• Excellent dissolution
• Moisture stability
• Minimal color development
• Direct reworking ability

LACTOSE ANHYDROUS DT HIGH VELOCITY

Lactose anhydrous DT high velocity is our newest innovation. It was designed to facilitate precise tableting operations. It has high flowability and a low percentage of fines that leads to uniform tablet weights, uniform active distribution, harder tablets, and steady dissolution.

FAST FLO® LACTOSE

Foremost™ Brand 316 Fast Flo® lactose was specifically developed for use in high-speed direct tabletting operations. It contains a mixture of both crystalline and amorphous lactose. The special processing and particle size of the product aids in compressibility, flowability, and disintegration, when compared to crystalline Alpha Monohydrate lactose.

CERTIFIED RENNET-FREE LACTOSE

We have over 65 years' experience in providing cGMP compliant ingredients to the pharmaceutical industry. Both monohydrate and anhydrous forms of lactose are produced at a fully compliant FDA registered drug establishment in Norwich, NY. Assuring further consumer safety, all ingredients are certified rennet-free.

GLOBAL DEDICATED SERVICE

With sales offices and distribution networks throughout the globe, and dedicated global technical and regulatory experts, customers in every region depend upon us to provide unique, technology-driven solutions to meet any need. We provide the ingredients and documentation necessary to support the speed to market, consistency, compliance and innovation needs of the pharmaceutical industry

WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

Serving clients worldwide, Foremost Farms USA is a major excipient supplier to the growing pharmaceutical industry. Foremost Farms USA customizes pharmaceutical-grade lactose specific to customers' directives. Foremost Farms will help you find excipient solutions to production roadblocks and provide a product that meets your needs. Foremost Farms' lactose for excipient usage meets the rigorous standards set by US and international pharmacoepia, assuring consistent quality.

Foremost Farms USA and Sheffield Pharma Ingredients have a strategic alliance for lactose marketing. Sheffield Pharma Ingredients is a business group of Kerry Bio-Science, a Kerry Group company. Sheffield manages the sales, marketing and distribution of Foremost Farms' line of pharmaceutical lactose.

Foremost Farms' history in pharmaceutical lactose technology is complemented by the Sheffield Pharma Ingredients' lines of glycerides for modified release systems, glidants, lubricants and plasticizers, as well as aqueous coating systems and media components for the traditional pharmaceutical fermentation and biotechnology industries.