Patent ID: 8337897

Claim:
An oral pharmaceutical or veterinary granule composition in the form of a mixture consisting essentially of: (i) florfenicol constituting from 0.5% to 20% by weight of the composition, and excipients, said pharmaceutical or veterinary granule composition providing a florfenicol release of at least 80% within 10 minutes in water, (ii) a first excipient being a maltodextrin representing from 40% by weight to 80% by weight of said composition, (iii) a wetting amount of a second excipient being a polyethylene glycol having a weight number molecular weight between 300 and 5,000, said second excipient comprising a solid fraction and a liquid fraction, and representing from 15% to 40% by weight of said composition, and optionally one or more pharmaceutically acceptable fillers selected from the group consisting of hydrocolloids, glidants, lubricants, surfactants and diluents, wherein the weight ratio of said first excipient (ii) to said second excipient (iii) is in a range from 1:1 to 5:1.