Govt notifies NIAB as central drugs lab for COVID vaccines
Hyderabad: In a move that will speed up the testing and lot release of Covid-19 vaccines, the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad, has been notified as a Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL) by the Union ministry of health & family welfare (MoHFW).
The move will bring much respite to Hyderabad-based vaccine makers such as Bharat Biotech, Biological E and Indian Immunologicals Ltd, which are engaged in the manufacture Covid-19 vaccines, as all the lots had to be first sent to CDL Kasauli for testing and release.
The notification came after the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) furnished a draft notification to MoHFW for notifying NIAB, Hyderabad, as a CDL laboratory.
Apart from NIAB, Hyderabad, the name of National Centre for Cell Sciences (NCCS) at Pune too was recommended.
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