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Formulation Development

Species-specific formulation services

Get a formulation that performs in the animals it’s made for.

Get a formulation that performs in the animals it’s made for and scales to commercial manufacture. Our drug formulation development team works across all major veterinary dosage forms, from API characterisation through to registration-ready formulations.

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Get formulation services designed for your species, your dosage form, and commercial scale

We consider stability, manufacturability, and palatability where applicable before you commit to scale.

  • Formulate for your target species: Dissolution profiling where relevant, preservative system design for multi-dose products, and palatability for companion animal oral products, all grounded in veterinary physiology.
  • Start from solid API data: Excipient compatibility, stability, and degradation pathway assessment from day one to surface risks before they become costly.
  • Answer regulatory questions with data you already have: Our flexible SOP framework collects information during GMP runs, giving you the data you need to set specifications and respond to regulatory questions.
  • Scale without surprises: Your formulation is developed on equipment that mirrors production-scale conditions, so issues are anticipated before scale-up.
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3 proprietary delivery platforms available to license

2 formulation development sites, in the US and New Zealand

125+ commercial products manufactured

Our Formulation Services

Solve your formulation challenges with one drug formulation development team

Whether you’re starting from a new API or improving an existing product, get formulation services tailored to your species, dosage form, and therapeutic goals.

API characterisation & preformulation

Define your formulation strategy from the start with physicochemical profiling, excipient compatibility screening, and degradation pathway mapping.

Palatability & compliance

Give companion animal oral products a dose that pets accept, with taste masking, texture optimisation, and flavour system design tested through in-house palatability studies and texture analysis.

Dissolution & release profiling

Get immediate- and extended-release profiles tailored to your target species’ physiology, for the dosage forms where dissolution applies.

Preservative systems

Get compatibility and efficacy testing for multi-dose veterinary formulations.

Reformulation & optimisation

Improve an existing formulation, whether you need to solve a stability challenge, adapt a human health formulation for animals, or move to a different dosage form.

Scale-up readiness

Refine your formulation parameters at each scale for consistent performance and manufacturability.
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Dosage Forms

What can Argenta formulate?

Work with formulation scientists who develop and scale every major veterinary dosage form, including three proprietary platforms you can license to differentiate a new molecule or extend the life of an existing product.

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Soft chews

Give pets a dose they’ll accept, with >85% full acceptability, zero added water, and tablet-level stability in a treat-like format.

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Controlled-release capsules

Deliver single-dose, year-long sustained release for livestock (R² = 0.9979 over 343 days), with gel-former technology available from no other manufacturer.

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Microspheres

Tune release from one week to 12 months, with no organic solvents and scalable GMP production.

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Develop any other major dosage form

Oral solids

Non-sterile liquids

Suspensions

Spot-on tubes

Transdermal solutions

Sterile injectables

Take your product from molecule to market with integrated services

Early phase development

Your early-phase work runs alongside pilot, feasibility, and target-animal safety studies, so formulation data shapes your study design, and study results feed back into your formulation decisions.

Formulation development

Your regulatory team works alongside your formulation scientists from day one, so every formulation decision supports your submission.

Analytical development

Your analytical work spans product optimisation through registration, so the methods you develop early carry through to your dossier.

Process development

Your pilot and registration batches supply your field studies directly, so test articles never move between partners.

Why Argenta

Why choose Argenta for formulation development?

Formulate for the full range of animals

Your formulation accounts for the realities of veterinary medicine, from wide weight ranges within some species and the corresponding dose ranges to palatability and injection challenges.

Develop to VICH guidelines from the start

Your development work follows the VICH guidelines that govern animal health development, so your data package meets veterinary regulators’ expectations.

Scale with the team that will manufacture

The scientists who develop your formulation are connected to the team that makes your commercial product, so your formulation reflects manufacturing realities.

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Clinical studies

Run VICH-GCP-compliant studies designed around your formulation parameters, across a global clinical site network.
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Regulatory Affairs - Animal health and nutritional products

Regulatory affairs

Get dedicated animal health regulatory expertise to guide your product from development strategy through submission and approval.
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Contract manufacturing

Manufacture your formulation at commercial scale across oral solids, soft chews, liquids, and proprietary delivery platforms in FDA/EMA-approved animal health facilities.
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Featured resources

Outsourced stability testing: Ensuring product quality and reliability

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Developing a palatable and effective soft chew for companion animal medicine

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Accelerating the path to market for microspheres

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FAQs

What species do you have formulation experience with?

Companion animals (dogs, cats), livestock (cattle, sheep), equine, and large animals. Our formulation scientists tailor dissolution, delivery, and, for companion animal oral products, palatability to the physiology and compliance needs of each target species.

Can Argenta handle both early feasibility and full formulation development?

Yes. Whether you need a targeted feasibility study to validate a concept for your next funding round, or full pharmaceutical formulation development services through registration-ready specifications, we scale to your needs with flexible engagement models.

How does veterinary formulation development differ from human health?

Animal health development follows VICH guidelines, and human health development follows ICH guidelines; both share 21 CFR 211 for commercial manufacturing. Your formulation also has to account for a wide range of species, weight ranges within some species that require different doses, palatability for companion-animal oral products, and injection challenges.

Can you optimise or reformulate an existing product?

Yes. We regularly improve existing formulations, whether that means solving a stability challenge, improving palatability, adapting a human health formulation for animals, or reformulating for a different dosage form or delivery technology.

Can your formulation team work alongside regulatory and clinical teams?

Yes. Our regulatory team works with formulation scientists from day one, so every formulation decision is registration-ready, and clinical study design draws on your formulation parameters.

Do you offer proprietary delivery technologies?

Yes. You can license three commercially proven platforms: patent-protected soft chew extrusion, controlled-release intraruminal capsules built on proprietary gel-former technology, and tunable microspheres with release from one week to 12 months.
Healthy animals. Let’s make it happen, together.
Get a formulation that performs in your target species and scales to commercial supply.
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