February 2012

National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) was founded by Sir Robert McCarrison in the year 1918 as ‘Beri-Beri’ Enquiry Unit in a single room laboratory at the Pasteur Institute, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. Within a short span of seven years, this unit blossomed into a "Deficiency Disease Enquiry" and later in 1928, emerged as full-fledged "Nutrition Research Laboratories" (NRL) with Dr.

About Authors:
Dolita Shah^*, Mayur Mistry^1
*M.Pharm (Q.A, Gold Medalist),
Asst. Professor, Smt. R. B. Patel Mahila Pharmacy College
¹Production officer, Intas Pharmaceutical ltd,
Ahmedabad, India

Introduction
A new molecule can cost several millions of rupees or dollars to progress and any blunder causes greater impact on company’s status. As medicines play a vital role in human’s life there must be regulations for medicines ensuring Quality, Safety and Efficacy of drugs. The regulatory affairs professional is the only one who is completely responsible for holding products in compliance and maintaining all the records. One of the vital activities of the regulatory specialist is to ensure that the all the information regarding medicines has been correctly established to the patient covering labelling also. Even a small mistake in any of the activities related to regulatory can make the product to be recall in addition to loss of several millions of the money.

Cipla known for its innovative pharmaceutical products backed by latest in technology and creative marketing practices, is enjoying a commanding position among the top pharma companies in the country.
Several specialised therapeutic divisions and promising new products have been launched and many more are in the pipeline.

Naari AG is a Swiss pharma company focused on female hormones. We have two plants one is Kashipur which is API unit called Indo Phyto Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary of Naari) and formulation unit is in Rudrapur. We have subsidiary & Front end marketing in CIS Countries , Russia , Ukraine that is headed by Mr. Manfred Paul.(Ex. M.D of Bayer). We have contract development partnership in Spain. For Diagnostic we have Contract Manufacturing in China (Approved by EU).

Mead Johnson Nutrition is a global leader in infant and children's nutrition. They are best known for their infant formulae like Enfamil® and Enfapro®, and children's nutritional products like Enfagrow®, Enfakid®, EnfaSchool®, and Sustagen® in Asia, and Choco Milk® and Cal-C-Tose® in Mexico and Latin America.