Patent ID: 8715724

Claim:
A process for producing a tablet containing an active ingredient, the process comprising: providing core elements containing the active ingredient; coating the core elements with a pharmaceutically acceptable coating layer; drying the coated core elements; dusting the dried coated core elements with a powdered anti-static agent selected from the group consisting of kaolin, magnesium trisilicate, starch, microcrystalline cellulose, bentonite, silicon dioxide, cellulose, stearic acid, sodium stearyl fumarate, and glycerol behenate, the group not including talc, to form dusted pellets; and then compressing the dusted pellets with tabletting excipients to form the tablet, wherein amount of the anti-static agent is about 0.5% (by weight) of the dusted pellets, and amount of the dusted pellets in each tablet is in the range of 20 to 50% by weight of the total tablet weight.