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Drugs Control Laboratory
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- Responsible for testing of samples of Drugs , Cosmetics and Whole Human Blood under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940.
- Assistant Director is the Head of the Laboratory .Senior Scientific Officer and Scientific officers, notified as Government Analysts are responsible for issuing reports of samples of Drugs and Cosmetics.
- The Existing Capacity -Existing -6000 samples per year and Proposed to 12000 samples per year
- The laboratory has the following divisions namely
- Coding Division
- Chemical -I Division
- Chemical -II Division
- Microbiology Division
- Biology Division
- Vitamin Division
- Pharmacognosy Division
- Cosmetics Division
- Division for testing Whole Human Blood
- The laboratory has also ancillary services like Hi-tech Instrument Section, Animal House, Stores and Administrative Section.
- The laboratory is provided with modern equipments.
- The laboratory has staff from different disciplines like Pharmacy, Chemistry, Microbiology, Botany and DMLT.
- The laboratory is participating in the collaborative work for establishment of National Standards organised by Central Indian Pharmacopoeial Laboratory, Ghaziabad for amendments to be made in the Indian Pharmacopoeia.
- The problems for research work are generally undertaken during routine analytical work. Some of the problems undertaken are published in reputed journals.
- Laboratory officials actively participate as members of various committees and councils like Indian Pharmacopoeia Committee & sub-committees, Drugs Advisory Boards, Bureau of Indian Standards Committees etc.
- The Laboratory is in process of getting NABL accreditation.
- The Drugs Control Laboratory recently set up at Aurangabad.
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