May 18, 2011

By the end of 2011 in Russia will be open four state laboratory complex Equipped with mobile mini-laboratories for quality control of medicines.

As head Roszdravnadzor Elena Telnova, made a presentation at a meeting within 17 of the International Pharmaceutical Forum in St. Petersburg until the end of 2011 is planned to open four federal laboratory complexes. Now in Russia there are two such institutions.

The exact location of the new complex is not yet known, but it is known that soon is expected to open one of the institutions in the laboratory Moscow As well as the active negotiations on the establishment of such a complex in the Stavropol region.

Elena Telnova also noted that thanks to the work of existing laboratories a decrease in the number of unsound drugs. In 2009 the figure was 1, 8% of the total number of drugs, in 2010 there was a reduction of the rate to 1, 66%.

Since the beginning of the current year on the basis of the turnover of the checks were seized 114 items of substandard medicines, of which approximately 54% are medications   domestic production. And stressed the head of the agency, the number of counterfeit products was considerably reduced.

So, in 2010 Roszdravnadzor was found and seized 22 names fake drugs. In the first quarter of 2011, 4 kinds of medicines ever left the shelves of pharmacies and more than 4000 applications for medicinal products of inadequate quality is pending.

As previously reported, Clinical trials in Russia in jeopardy . Creating public laboratories may have a positive impact on the solution of this problem, and residents will be able to timely receive the latest drugs.