Lactose, also referred to as milk sugar, is widely used in the pharmaceutical industry. As lactose has excellent compressibility properties it is helpful to use when forming tablets.
Further applications are for dry-powder inhalations, to treat obstipation, as a pharmaceutical adjuvant and as an additive and binder in the food industry.
The US and the European pharmacopoeias demand the analysis of the purity of lactose monohydrate polarimetrically.
The MCP polarimeters from Anton Paar are ideal to determine the specific rotation of lactose monohydrate.
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