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Pharmaceuticals & Cosmetics

Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic products are produced in many forms from powders and granules to Pastes and liquids. The colour of these products is important in the identification, safety and aesthetic value of the final product as well as a way to measure the progress of processing. Pharmaceutical colour is also an important indicator of degradation. […]

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Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic products are produced in many forms from powders and granules to Pastes and liquids. The colour of these products is important in the identification, safety and aesthetic value of the final product as well as a way to measure the progress of processing. Pharmaceutical colour is also an important indicator of degradation.

The Tintometer manufacture a range of instruments for the evaluation of colour for incoming raw materials, final product and packaging material in its many different forms.

Scales & Values

Grading techniques are widely used to assess product colour by comparison with a representative series of fixed colour standards.

For many product types, a characteristic set of standards was agreed and adopted to aid colour control and the communication of colour specifications; the result is a selection of traditional colour grading scales that have been adopted as industry standards and are still in common use today.

Your Colour Scale requirement determines your instrument choice.
  • Platinum-Cobalt/Hazen/APHA Colour (ASTM D 1209)
  • European Pharmacopoeia (EP) Colour
  • Chinese Pharmacopoeia (CP) Colour
  • CIELAB (L*C*h)
  • Delta E* colour difference
  • Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP) Colour
  • Whiteness Index (ASTM E 313)
  • US Pharmacopoeia (USP) Colour