Vanta Bioscience’s Chennai Preclinical Research Facility Gets GLP Accreditation

Vanta Bioscience, a US-owned and operated preclinical Contract Research Organization (CRO), has received Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) accreditation for its toxicology facility in Chennai from the National GLP Compliance Monitoring Authority (NGCMA), a branch within the Government of India, after successfully clearing preliminary and final audits...

Pharmexcil Asks Govt To Hike Reimbursement For Product Registration

Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) has demanded the union Ministry of Commerce and Industry to increase the reimbursement fees provided to the Indian companies for product registration in the US by 50 percent. Through this proposal, the Council aims to safeguard the interest of the Indian companies against the burden of huge user fee that the USFDA is planning to levy from all the companies exporting to the US through its proposed Generic Drug User Fee Act (GDUFA)...

CDSCO Sets Ambitious Expansion Plan In Capacity Building During 2013-20

According to the roadmap prepared by the CDSCO for the period of 2013 - 20, strengthening of manpower is a key element “by strengthening of CDSCO manpower by creating additional 1195 new posts, including 64 experts and additional 4300 personnel for new laboratories, mobile drug testing labs, E-governance, training academy,” it said...

Taking A PEEK At New Implants

Solvay Specialty Polymers expands range of PEEK resins for implantable Medical Devices.

A new radio-visible compound grade, Zeniva ZA-520, provides image contrasting capabilities for visualisation with x-ray CT and MRI imaging systems...