FOSTER, BETH MARY,YANG, HONGLI,COSGROVE, TERENCE,HASAN, EROL AHMED
申请号：
NZ57920508
公开号：
NZ579205A
申请日:
2008.02.26
申请国别(地区):
NZ
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
Disclosed is a chewing gum composition comprising a chewing gum base a pharmaceutically active ingredient or vitamin, mineral or other nutritional supplement a polymeric material and one or more sweetening or flavouring agents wherein the polymeric material is amphiphilic, has a straight or branched chain carbon-carbon backbone and a multiplicity of side chains attached to the backbone. A method of forming said chewing gum composition is also disclosed, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (i) forming a chewing gum base by mixing an elastomeric material optionally with one or more elastomer plasticisers, softeners, fillers, emulsifiers and waxes and (ii) adding a pharmaceutically active ingredient, vitamin, mineral or other nutritional supplement to the gum base together with one or more sweetening or flavouring agents, to form a chewing gum composition wherein a polymeric material which is amphiphilic and has a straight or branched chain carbon-carbon backbone and a multiplicity of side chains attached to the backbone, is added to the chewing gum base in step (i), and/or to the chewing gum composition in step (ii).
