Ahmedabad, 2 Jan: To step up surveillance and reduce the time needed for detection of fake drugs, Gujarat Food and Drugs Control Administration (GFDCA) is developing 'Quick Detection Kits'.
The project, taken up in collaboration with Department of Health and Human Services, the apex health body of the United States, is a first of its kind in India.
"A three-member delegation from Department of Health and Human Services, USFDA, is visiting our laboratory in February, when we would discuss techniques used for quick analysis of pharmaceutical products," GFDCA Commissioner H G Koshia told PTI.
"The idea is to develop a quick detection kit for screening of pharmaceutical products, with the help of hi-Tec gizmos based on infra-red spectroscopy principles." Three types of very sophisticated portable instruments for on-the-spot drug testing are available with the US Department of Health and Human Services.
"Testing a drug is a tedious and cumbersome process. It usually takes anything between 36 to 72 hours," Koshia said. An official estimate puts prevalence of spurious drugs upto 30 per cent in the over Rs 34,000-crore drugs market in the country.
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