A REVIEW: APPLICATION OF WATER IN PHARMACEUTICALS Review Article

Water is one of the major commodities used by the pharmaceutical industry. It is present as an excipient, or used for reconstitution of products during synthesis, during production of the finished product or as a cleaning agent for rinsing vessels, equipment, primary packaging materials etc. Water used in pharmaceutical purposes purified water, water for injection, sterile water for injection, bacteriostatic water for injection, sterile water for irrigation according to IP and USP. Two types of water Non pharmaceutical or Natural Water. Naturally occurring waters contain dissolved minerals indigenous to the region. Such waters are described as mineral water, Lithia waters, sulfur waters, and so on. Other is Pharmaceutical water- that has undergone carbon filtration, distillation, deionization, reverse osmosis, ultraviolet sterilization, or some combination of these processes to remove almost all minerals and chemical elements. Different grades of water quality are required depending on the different pharmaceutical uses.