The Union health ministry recently set up an expert committee that will hear various stakeholders to ascertain whether animal-origin gelatin capsules should be replaced with plant-origin cellulose ...

New Delhi: In a big relief to the pharmaceuticals industry, an expert panel has nixed a proposal by women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi to make it mandatory to replace widely used ...

Scientists are reporting an advance toward turning corn plants into natural factories for producing gelatin to replace animal-sourced gelatin widely used by the pharmaceutical industry for ...

Dublin, Aug. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Vegetarian Capsules Market Size and Forecast, Global and Regional Share, Trend, and Growth Opportunity Analysis Report Coverage: By Product, Application, ...

The over Rs 1 lakh crore Indian pharmaceutical industry extensively depends on gelatin. NEW DELHI: Your neighbourhood chemist could soon offer you a vegetarian capsule. The country's top drug ...

CHANDIGARH: At a time when there is a debate over replacing animal origin capsules with cellulose (vegetarian) ones owing to religious sentiments of the people, a research published by PGI’s ...

New Delhi: Indian drug makers have sought the intervention of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) against a recently floated government proposal to replace the widely used animal parts-based gelatin ...

India’s capsule market is making a major move towards vegan alternatives. HPMC (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose) capsules are becoming the preferred choice for pharma and nutraceutical companies aiming ...

Dublin, Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Empty Capsules Market by Type (Gelatin, Non-gelatin), Raw Material (Porcine, Bovine, HPMC), Functionality (Immediate ...

The global Hard Gelatin Capsules Market was worth US$ 1.7 Billion in 2022 and is expected to reach US$ 3.2 Billion by the year 2032 at a CAGR of 6.4% between 2022 and 2032. Hard capsules come across ...