Laboratory
NATIONAL QUALITY CONTROL LABORATORY
The quality of a drug is one of the criteria for market approval. Quality assurance covers all activities aimed at ensuring that consumers and patients receive a product that meets established specifications and standards of quality, safety an efficacy.
The National Quality Control Laboratory (NQCL) is the quality control arm of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board established under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act, Cap 244.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of the NQCL is to ensure that the quality of drugs available on the Kenyan market are safe, efficacious and of high quality. This is achieved by appropriate testing of drugs before the Pharmacy and Poisons Board registers them.
FUNCTIONS
- The
NQCL also carries out drug analysis on request from other parties
such as the pharmaceutical industry, medical institutions, NGO's
and other governmental institutions.
- The
examination and testing of drugs and material or substance form
or with which and the manner in which drugs may be manufactured,
processed or treated and ensuring the quality control of drugs
and medicinal substances.
- Performing
chemical, biological, biochemical, physiological and pharmacological
analysis and other pharmaceutical evaluation.
- Testing, at the request of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board and on behalf of the Government, of locally manufactured and imported drugs or medical substances with a view to determine whether such drugs or medicinal substances comply with Cap 244 and the rules there under.
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