FDCA Gujarat signs MoU with century old French company bioMérieu

Ahmedabad: The Food and Drugs Control Administration –FDCA, Government of Gujarat and bioMérieux, a 115 years old French Company today signed a MoU to establish a training program concerned with microbiological testing technologies and applications for the pharmaceutical and food sectors to better understand the regulatory requirements with respect to the domestic as well as export markets.

The MoU was signed here by Hemant G.Koshia, Commissioner FDCA and Nicolas Cartier corporate VP bioMérieux Industry Unit and Strategic
Planning in presence of Vanrajsinh Vanzara, Joint Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department and others.

This MoU will help Gujarat Government and Pharma Industry in the State, both the regulators and manufacturers meeting the expectations for faster, more accurate and more cost-effective testing. bioMérieux would be instrumental in setting up a state of the art laboratory for the FDCA in Gujarat for pharma and food testing, meeting world standards . Since, Gujarat is the leading pharma hub in the country; it is required to be updated to meet with the emerging challenges of technology and monitor hazardous contaminants and adulterants and other deleterious agents causing public health severely. Therefore, it is important to have rapid monitoring of microorganisms- environmental, spoilage and pathogenic so as to meet the need of Industry as well as regulators in a big way.

bioMérieux operating globally, headquartered in Lyon. It has an over-arching commitment to public health, operating in over 150 countries. The company is a
leading international diagnostics group that specializes in the field of in vitro diagnostics for clinical and industrial applications. bioMérieux designs, develops, manufactures and markets systems i.e. reagents, instruments and software used in Clinical as well as Industrial applications.

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