"Although much attention is focused on the active component of drugs, it's important to remember that excipients used for delivery and administration are also components of these medications. These excipients, which have unique characteristics both for the formulation and stability of the product, also can affect patients. This is a thorough reference on these drug excipients...The book certainly is useful for an array of professionals, including those in the drug industry, pharmaceutics, and drug design. As a pharmacist and a pharmacy educator who focuses on medication safety, I was intrigued by the safety information in the monographs. Students and others researching this topic will find this a very useful reference...This edition covers 380 drug excipient monographs, which are arranged alphabetically. For each recipient, readers are able to reference nonproprietary names, chemical names and empiric chemical formulas, functional categories, applications in pharmaceutical formulations, chemical properties, stability and storage information, incompatibilities, safety and handling precautions, and other qualities and properties...This is certainly one of the most useful, complete, and concise references in this area. 5 stars" Patrick J McDonnell, Pharm.D.(Temple University School of Pharmacy), Doody's Notes, May 2013. "The consistent layout and structure is reader-friendly and provides an excellent reference point. The tables listing the properties of families of excipients are particularly useful and informative as are the comparisons of the various compendial requirements...The section on regulatory status is particularly useful as it indicates if the excipient is listed in the FDA inactive ingredients database and in what kind of applications as well, thereby setting precedence of use...There is no better or succinct source of information on excipients available and the editors and author are to be credited with producing such a valuable reference work." Iain Moore, Industrial Pharmacy (35), September 2012
