Shelf life of Ayurvedic dosages form : Present Scenario & Need to follow Modern Paradigm

Present Scenario of shelf life of Ayurvedic dosage forms

Abstract

shelf life of Ayurvedic dosages forms is mentioned after 13^th century. From basic kalpana to derived kalpana shelf life varies from 3 hr to several years. Shelf life is a very important aspect of pharmaceutics, which depends upon packaging, storing, material to be used in packaging, excipients used in dosages forms and some other external aspects as like climatic condition of storage place and markets. Thanks to modern system of packaging, storing, transporting system and packaging material shelf life of Ayurvedic dosages forms enhanced. Government of India issued a first gazette notification in 2009 and revised gazette notification in 2016 for shelf life of Ayurvedic dosages forms. Ayurveda still has to adopt many aspect of modern paradigm of technical advancements and to cope up with markets demands to reach out the more customer bases and have a higher share as per its potential, development of new dosages forms are one of them. Some modern dosage forms are introduced in Ayurvedic system of medicine like tablets, capsules, sprays, eye drops, toothpaste, facewash etc. The guidance on Stability testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients and finished pharmaceutical products was published as Annex 2 in the World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Report Series, No. 953, 2009 (1).The aim of these regulatory guidelines is to outline the core stability.