UI Pharmaceuticals has been Manufacturing and Testing Clinical Supplies for Almost 45 years
The University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals offers tablet and capsule product contract clinical supply manufacturing and testing services. We are able to process controlled substances schedules I-V and most potent and cytotoxic materials. Let us help you meet your needs.
University of Iowa Pharmaceuticals’ (UIP) has four suites: one suite is dedicated to tablet and capsule coating, two suites are dedicated to the handling of potent/cytotoxic compounds, and one suite is divided into four separate manufacturing rooms and is designed for handling less potent/toxic materials.
Each manufacturing room has its own gowning/entry way that opens from a central staging area. Differential air pressures and single pass air, along with other measures including cleaning verification, are used to prevent cross-contamination.
Special protective suites, wireless intercoms and video feeds, and supplied air respirators are used to protect employees from exposure to potent/toxic materials. The area is supported with a clean, dry compressed air system and a hot loop USP Purified Water system.
All incoming air is HEPA filtered and humidity controlled and exhausted air is double HEPA filtered. UIP can process controlled substances schedules I-V and most potent/cytotoxic compounds.

Tablet and capsule dosage forms can be produced using a variety of processes including roller compaction, wet granulation, and simple blending. Batch sizes can range from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands of dosage units, depending on the dosage form unit weight and formulation blend density.
Processing techniques available to prepare products include:
Screening, Milling or Micronizing
Roller Compaction
Low or High Shear Wet Granulation
Fluid Bed Granulation or Coating
Fluid Bed or Conventional Drying
Holt Melt Capsule Filling
Tablet or Capsule Pan Coating
Low or High Shear Blending
Capsule Banding

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