Cork company in search for way to make medicine go down

A Cork-based company is working with the pharmaceutical industry to make tablets tastier and easier to swallow.

SRL Pharma is collaborating with UCC’s School of Pharmacy and the Clinical Research Facility Cork (CRF-C) at Mercy University Hospital (MUH) to achieve the goals.

While sensory research has long been used in the food sector, to ensure a product’s acceptability to the consumer market, this type of sensory research is now being used more and more in the pharma sector.