The raw material for gelatin production comes from different animal carcasses such as pigs, cattle and sheep, and the recent epidemics of mad cow disease, avian flu, blue ear disease and foot-and-mouth disease all come from animals. When a retrospective investigation of the drug is required, it is often difficult to trace the raw material of the capsule. And plant gum from natural plants, can better solve the above problems.
This is one of the main reasons why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has earlier issued guidance to achieve 80% market share for plant-based hollow capsules in the U.S. within the next few years.
Now, many pharmaceutical companies because of the cost problem, repeatedly to hollow capsule supply enterprises to lower the price, and hollow capsule in order to get a foothold in the difficult living environment, can only be ignorant of conscience, the use of cheap gelatin.
According to the Chinese gelatin Association survey, the current market price of regular medicinal gelatin is about 50,000 yuan/ton, and the price of Lanalum rubber is only 15,000 yuan - 20,000 yuan/ton. Therefore, some illegal manufacturers, driven by interests, can only be used for industrial blue alum rubber (with old leather clothes old shoes and other processing of gelatin) as food, medicinal gelatin use or doping use. The result of such a vicious circle is that the health of the general population cannot be guaranteed.