By introducing mobile drug testing lab, making it the first state in the country to possess such a high tech on the go-spot-detecting drug testing laboratory. The state government invest Rs. 1 crore from the funds allocated to the Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA) for this purpose.
This mobile drug testing lab has an in built library consisting of resources of up to 1000 molecules of pharmaceutical APIs as accepted under the Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP), United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) and British Pharmacopoeia (BP) standards. The lab is equipped with near infrared spectrophotometer, X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, ion mobility spectrometer and the Raman spectrophotometer Interestingly, it has the ability to detect and give the test results based on the information pre–saved into its system within 25 seconds, that too without damaging the samples in any way.
The equipments used in this lab are very compact for easy handling along with its long record for giving effective performance. Interestingly, along with the launch of the mobile drug-testing lab, the Gujarat FDCA also launched its second food-testing lab on the same day.
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