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: Often called "hardness," it measures the force needed to break the tablet.

When the laboratory’s fluorescent lights hummed to life at 07:00, Dr. Elena Varga already had the monograph open on her screen. It was the 0478 monograph — Tablets — the quiet scaffolding behind millions of doses crossing borders, dispensed in hospitals, bought at neighborhood pharmacies. To most, it was an obscure file name in the European Pharmacopoeia; to Elena it was a promise: consistent quality, safety and identity, written in a language of limits and methods. European Pharmacopoeia -ph. Eur.- Monograph Tablets -0478-

to clarify the efficacy of break-marks and refine dissolution requirements. More recently, the : Often called "hardness," it measures the force