Gujarat FDCA's rapid microbiological testing lab at Vadodara becomes operational
The Gujarat Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA)'s flagship project of rapid microbiological testing lab at Vadodara has finally become operational with the testing of large volume parenterals in the first phase. Estimated to have completed at a cost of around Rs.4.5 crore, the laboratory which is housed at Food and Drug Testing Lab (FDL), Vadodara, India's largest drug testing lab, also has the distinction of being Asia's first government rapid microbiological testing lab. The lab which has now been validated and calibrated is fully equipped to check contamination in medicines imported and exported as per global regulatory requirements. This rapid microbiological testing facility at Vadodara has the capacity to test 100 plus samples in a day and will bring turnaround time for drug testing from 14 days to just 4 hours. The project which took four years to fructify with the support of French company BioMérieux was implemented by Gujarat Medical Services Corp...