MEDICINES QUALITY ASSURANCE CENTRES
Quality Assuarance of medicines
The laboratory has established Quality assurance centers that aim to screen consignments of selected group of medicines at ports of entries before entering the country as well at centers within the country to screen medicines already in the market. This facilitates monitoring quality of registered medicines products to safeguard public health.
These centers are equipped with GPHF-Minilab kit for detecting falsified and substandard medicine products.
GPHF Minilab kit
is a simple and relatively easy and quick technique for quality screening of medicinal products in the field. The kit is capable of carrying out visual inspection, disintegration tests for oral solid dosage forms and thin-layer chromatography (TLC) for identification of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) present in a formulation.
TMDA has placed 25 minilab kits in 25 different quality assurance centers in the country which are located at ports of entries, regional referral hospitals (RRH) and TMDA zone offices.
SN | Quality Assurance Center | Location |
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1. | Geita Region Referral Hospital | LAKE ZONE |
2. | Bukoba Region Referral Hospital | |
3. | Musoma Region Referral Hospital | |
4. | Mtukula (port of entry) | |
5. | Sirari (port of entry) | |
6. | TMDA Eastern Lake Zone office | |
7. | Manyara Region Referral Hospital | NOTHERN ZONE |
8. | Kilimanjaro Region Referral Hospital | |
9. | Kilimanjaro International Airport (port of entry) | |
10. | Namanga (port of entry) | |
11. | TMDA Nothern Zone office | |
12. | Mbeya Region Referral Hospital | SOUTHERN HIGHLAND ZONE |
13. | Tunduma Region Referral Hospital | |
14. | Sumbawanga Region Referral Hospital | |
15. | Iringa Region Referral Hospital | |
16. | Horohoro (port of entry) | EASTERN ZONE |
17. | Bombo Region Referral Hospital | |
18. | TMDA Eastern Zone office | |
19. | Lindi Region Referral Hospital | SOUTHERN ZONE |
20. | Mtwara Region Referral Hospital | |
21. | Songea Region Referral Hospital | |
22. | TMDA Central Zone office | CENTRAL ZONE |
23. | Tabora Region Referral Hospital | WESTERN ZONE |
24. | Kigoma Region Referral Hospital | |
25. | Katavi Region Referral Hospital |