This invention is made to provide a formed article which ensures that an active substance included therein and a substance outside capsules can effectively come in contact with each other without suffering influences such as a pressure loss, that the surface area thereof can be utilized to the utmost without having the surface of an active substance coated with a polymer, that the active substance does not easily come off or separate even when external friction or the like is exerted and that an active substance does not directly come in contact with a human body or is not sucked into a human body. This invention is a formed article having a plurality of cells formed in a polymer (Z), (1) each cell including an active substance, (2) the polymer (A) having pores, each pore communicating with other pores in the polymer (A) and having a diameter in the range of 1 nm to 1 .mu.m, and (3) the internal wall of each cell and the active substance being substantially not in contact with each other, and process for production thereof.