Summary:
Since more than 6,000 drug samples are pending for test, the health department has directed 115 drug controllers to reduce the number of drug samples they draw from the market for test. JAIPUR: More than 6,000 samples of medicines are pending for quality test as only one drug-testing laboratory is functional in the state.The laboratory is functional in the state, which was set up in 1962. Drawing six samples every month by each of 115 drug controllers would have increased the number of pending drugs for testing. Earlier, each drug controller was collecting six samples every month. Since then no new drug-testing laboratory has become functional in past 57 years.In the state, where 115 drug controller officers, who are responsible for drawing samples of medicines from shops, only one laboratory is functional which is unable for test of drug samples which are collected by drug controllers.Some of the samples which were collected one year ago are still pending for quality test.The existing laboratory is capable of testing 2300 to 2500 samples per year..