Pharma Dept organizes industrial visit & seminar for pharma students
Pharma Dept organizes industrial visit & seminar for pharma students
12th September 2019
In order to provide
practical exposure and experience vibrant learning, Aryans College of Pharmacy,
Rajpura, Near Chandigarh organized an industrial visit to Interstellar Testing
Centre (ITC) Private Limited, Panchkula and a guest lecture by Dr. Suresh Kumar,
Secretary, Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers in India, Punjab for B.
Pharmacy and D. Pharmacy students it Campus.
The visit aimed to
understand the technologies & procedures used in Industry, thus providing a
practical edge while the interactive session was based on Ideation to
innovation in Herbal Drugs.
During the industrial
visit the Pharma students were told about various aspects of testing and
assurance in the fields of Drugs, Food & Chemicals, Ayurvedic,
Microbiological, Environment (Air, Water & Soil), Building Materials etc.
They shared the views about the testing parameters, quality control and quality
assurance aspects of the Pharma industry.
While Dr. Suresh Kumar
while discussing the importance of Herbal medicine said that it is the mainstay
of about three-fourth of the world population, significantly in the developing
countries, for primary health care. There is a great demand for herbal
medicines because of their wide biological activities, higher safety of margin
than the synthetic drugs and lesser costs.
Dr. Suresh gave
examples of various medicines which originated from herbal plants including
insulin from the roots of dahlias, quinine from the cinchona, morphine and
codeine from the poppy, digoxin from the foxglove etc which are being used
widely in the medicinal chemistry for the formulation of the drugs.
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