Isolasi dan Identifikasi Gelatin pada Sediaan Obat Tablet yang Tidak Berbahan Aktif Protein

Abstract

Gelatin has many uses and not only on food products but also to the non food products like the raw material of the capsule, the raw material of cosmetic and medicine. In pharmaceutical industry, gelatin used in manufacture of soft and hard capsule and a binding material of tablet medicine. Gelatin is product hydrolysis of collagen and a point source of it from cow and pig bone and cow, pig and fish skin. On 2002, as many as 41% gelatin produced from the pig skin. This is a reflection of the number of gelatin from pig in the word market as well very large so it was worried that create insecurity for the community especially muslims to consume medicine who uses gelatin as a binding material of tablet medicine. The purpose of this research is for isolate gelatin in tablet medicine that the active ingredient not a protein make a ferris methode and indentify the gelatin use reagent biuret. From eleven sample was analyzed nine sample is contain gelatin and two sample isn’t contain gelatin.