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FLAVORx is a private company based in Columbia, Maryland, United States that supplies sugar-free, hypoallergenic, and inert medicine flavorings and flavoring systems to
pharmacies Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...
. The company was established in 1995 in
Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...
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pediatric Pediatrics (American English) also spelled paediatrics (British English), is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, pediatrics covers many of their youth ...
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veterinary Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals. The scope of veterinary medicine is wide, covering all animal species, both ...
flavors, which can be added to prescription or
over-the-counter Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are medicines sold directly to a consumer without a requirement for a prescription from a healthcare professional, as opposed to prescription drugs, which may be supplied only to consumers possessing a valid pres ...
liquid
medications Medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal product, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to medical diagnosis, diagnose, cure, treat, or preventive medicine, prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmaco ...
. Flavorx can be found in more than 46,000 pharmacies, and has flavored over 100 million prescriptions. Flavorx uses a 6 stage water filtration system, along with annual visits, to ensure USP compliance in chain and independent pharmacies. Flavorx has several flavoring machines. The PRO displays the formulary (flavoring recipe) but requires manual measurement of flavor. They also have AUTO, which reconstitutes and flavors automatically. Flavorx can be found in most major chains and independent pharmacies. The flavorings are intended to improve the
palatability Palatability (or palatableness) is the hedonic reward (which is pleasure of taste in this case) provided by foods or drinks that are agreeable to the "palate", which often varies relative to the homeostatic satisfaction of nutritional and/or wa ...
of their host medications by suppressing bitterness, adding sweetness, and/or enhancing the flavor profile. The flavoring of liquid medicines using these products has been shown to improve pediatric drug compliance. The firm also sells Pill Glide, a flavored spray designed to lubricate the mouth and throat, making pills easier to swallow.


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*{{Official website, http://flavorx.com/ Privately held companies based in Maryland Flavor companies Pharmaceutical companies of the United States