Avaliação da qualidade de suplemento alimentar a base de cálcio de ostras.

Abstract

Supplementation of some minerals has currently been necessary for the proper functioning of the body. Calcium, an essential mineral that is not produced by the body, is responsible for many metabolic functions, including the participation of bone development. Diseases requiring the implementation of this mineral, the most common is osteoporosis and as a treatment and / or prevention may be indicated calcium supplement base oysters. Quality control becomes crucial to ensure the safety of the product, through testing based on the adopted legislation. This study aimed to evaluate the supplement food quality calcium based marketed oysters in pharmaceutical form capsules four nationwide brands sold by Internet through physical-chemical quality control tests: Average weight, disintegration, assay and content uniformity. It was observed after the tests that the average weight parameter, all samples were not in accordance with the official compendium, the disintegration test, only to capsules of brands A and B disintegrated within the allotted time. Only sample A reached the level specified by most monographs of substances which are determined by the titration method. In the content uniformity test samples B, C and D had uniform and homogeneous distribution of the supplement in individual doses.