Medicines Quality assurance centers
To protect public health, TMDA has established 27 Quality Assurance Centers strategically located at ports of entry, regional referral hospitals (RRHs), and TMDA zonal offices across the country. These centers screen selected consignments of medicines before they enter Tanzania, as well as medicines already available on the market.
Each center is equipped with a GPHF-Minilab® kit — a simple, fast, and effective tool for detecting falsified and substandard medicines. The kit enables:
- Visual inspection of medicines
- Disintegration testing for oral solid dosage forms
- Thin-Layer Chromatography (TLC) to identify active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in a formulation
This system ensures early detection of poor-quality products, strengthens post-market surveillance, and supports TMDA’s mission to ensure that all registered medicines meet required safety, quality, and efficacy standards before reaching patients.
List of Quality Assurance centers.
| Location | No. | Quality Assurance Center |
| LAKE ZONE | 1 | Geita Region Referral Hospital |
| 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 | |
| NOTHERN ZONE | 1 | Manyara Region Referral Hospital |
| 2 | Kilimanjaro Region Referral Hospital | |
| 3 | Tarakea (port of entry) | |
| 4 | Namanga (port of entry) | |
| 5 | TMDA Nothern Zone office | |
| SOUTHERN HIGHLAND ZONE | 1 | Mbeya Region Referral Hospital |
| 2 | Tunduma Region Referral Hospital | |
| 3 | Sumbawanga Region Referral Hospital | |
| 4 | Iringa Region Referral Hospital |
| Location | No. | Quality Assurance Center |
| EASTERN ZONE | 1 | Horohoro (port of entry) |
| 2 | Bombo Region Referral Hospital | |
| 3 | TMDA Eastern Zone office | |
| SOUTHERN ZONE | 1 | Lindi Region Referral Hospital |
| 2 | Mtwara Region Referral Hospital | |
| 3 | Songea Region Referral Hospital | |
| CENTRAL ZONE | 1 | TMDA Central Zone office |
| 2 | Singida Region Referral Hospital | |
| 3 | Morogoro Region Referral Hospital | |
| WESTERN ZONE | 1 | Tabora Region Referral Hospital |
| 2 | Kigoma Region Referral Hospital | |
| 3 | Katavi Region Referral Hospital |