Other uses: It acts as a thickening agent, coating polymer, binder, and bioadhesive in pharmaceutical, food, and industrial manufacturing.



(2) Film forming machine:
Due to its film-forming properties, HPMC can be used to manufacture coatings for tablets and capsules. This coating serves a variety of purposes, including improving appearance, masking taste, and protecting active ingredients from environmental factors.
A study published in the Journal of Applied Toxicology evaluated the acute oral toxicity of HPMC in rats and found no side effects at doses up to 5000 mg/kg body weight (the highest dose tested). In addition, subchronic and chronic toxicity studies show no significant side effects in animals, even at high doses.
And for gluten-free food manufacturers it must be a god send.


producing and providing different types of HPMC for different fields of applications, generally Celopro HPMC series are consists of 3 types of standard products & several types of modified product.
The applicant did not provide new studies on the safety of HPMC, but made reference to previous assessment of celluloses (as a group) performed by other scientific bodies. Cellulose and cellulose derivatives were evaluated for their safety by JECFA (1990), which allocated a group ADI of ‘not specified’. The last comprehensive evaluation of cellulose and cellulose derivatives, including HPMC, for their use as food additives was done in 2017 by the ANS Panel (EFSA ANS Panel, 2018), which concluded that there was no need to set a numerical ADI. Although the data set available for the different celluloses is not complete and most of the studies were old and do not meet the current requirements of toxicological testing, the ANS Panel considered that the physico-chemical, structural, biological and kinetic similarities between the modified celluloses make it possible to apply a read-across approach among the different celluloses.