Patent ID: 8187615

Claim:
A pharmaceutical or nutritional composition, in the form of a stable non-hydrous emulsion dispersion, comprising: a) an originally crystalline hydrophobic bioactive agent, b) an oily solvent; c) a non-hydrous hydrophilic solvent; and d) an emulsifying stabilizer present in an amount of 0.1 to 10% of the emulsion dispersion, wherein said bioactive agent is dissolved or dispersed in said oily solvent such that the majority of the bioactive agent is non-crystalline and does not re-crystallize or only slightly crystallizes upon storage, wherein said oily solvent comprises the internal phase of the emulsion dispersion, and wherein said non-hydrous hydrophilic solvent comprises the continuous phase of said emulsion dispersion, whereby sub-micron mean droplet size is obtained upon dilution of the composition with physiological fluids.