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Gujarat FDCA, CDSCO to set up drug testing lab at Patan to strengthen lab infrastructure
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Shardul Nautiyal, Mumbai
June 23 , 2017
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As part of strengthening lab infrastructure in the state, the Gujarat
Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) will soon start a drug
testing lab in the Northern part of Gujarat at Patan with help from the
Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). The Centre will
bear 75 per cent of the cost as part of this lab upgradation programme
and the rest 25 per cent will be borne by the state.
“With the
starting of a lab at Patan, the number of drugs sampled and tested in
Gujarat will further increase,” says Gujarat FDCA Commissioner Dr H G
Koshia. At present, Vadodara lab is testing the highest number of
samples in the country.
Gujarat has been leading in the country
in terms of collection and analysis of drug samples as part of its
ongoing crackdown on spurious drugs through its post-marketing
surveillance programme. FDCA officers collected 11,300 samples in
2014-15 and 9,713 samples in 2013-14.
Further, Gujarat FDCA
through its ongoing random sampling surveys at retail and wholesale
stores, hospitals and manufacturing sites consolidated on an yearly
basis across the state registered a collection of 13,540 samples last
year which is the highest in the country.
This is followed by states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Himanchal Pradesh.
The
FDCA's Vadodara based drug testing lab had tested the maximum number of
6,025 drug samples as part of a pan India spurious drugs survey which
concluded last year to assess for the first time complete testing of
not-of- standard quality (NSQ) drugs as per Indian pharmacopoeia and
other pharmacopoeias.
This was followed by Central Drug Testing
Lab (CDTL) Hyderabad which tested 5,461samples, CDTL Mumbai which tested
5,418 samples, CDTL Chennai which tested 5,257samples, CDTL Bengaluru
which tested 2,033 samples and Maharashtra which tested 186 samples.
Done at an estimated cost of Rs.8.5
crore, the Union health ministry had entrusted the job of National
Drugs Survey in July 28, 2014 to Noida based National Institute of
Biologicals (NIB) which compiled it in the form of around 400 pages of
well documented evidence based study based on the pan-India sampled
field data to the tune of 48,000 samples.
The survey was done in
collaboration with Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata and
Hyderabad and National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). Central Drug
Testing Labs (CDTL) in Chandigarh, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata
and Guwahati, state drugs testing labs at Gujarat, Karnataka Maharashtra
and a lab at Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), Ghaziabad are part
of testing and analysis.
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