Intellipharmaceutics International Inc. (IPCI)

[Tekterra]

The blue dye doesn't affect anything or cure anything, it is easy to see it's not the active ingredient.

What if you just give it a sugar coating so it taste sweet, is that going to be a big problem with the advisory committee too? Ok, so no one had done that with opioid drugs before, we should probably require additional testing to make sure the sugar coating is safe?

We added some blue dye so that when crushed, you're going to get stained blue. That's not any different than making it taste sweet by adding some sugar or any food additive.

The purpose of the dye is to flag signs of abuse. It function as a marker. The FDA has no reason to be concerned with the dye.