The leading flag in the medical industry

- Over the past 5 years, with the efforts of the Board of Directors and all officials and employees, the Provincial Drug, Cosmetic and Food Testing Center has effectively implemented emulation movements, exceeding the annual plan targets. Every year, it is honored as the first and second ranked unit in Emulation Cluster No. 3 of the health sector.

Representatives of the Provincial Drug, Cosmetic and Food Testing Center received a certificate of merit at the conference to commend typical advanced models in the health sector for the period 2020-2025.

The Provincial Drug, Cosmetic, and Food Testing Center (formerly Lang Son Pharmaceutical Testing Station) is a public service unit under the Department of Health. The main tasks of the Center are: testing and researching the testing of drugs, cosmetics, foods, raw materials, pharmaceutical additives, cosmetics, and foods through the stages of purchasing, production, preparation, preservation, circulation, and use sent by drug, cosmetic, and food production and trading establishments or taking samples for quality inspection and supervision; developing testing methods, directing and guiding on technical, professional, and professional aspects of drug, cosmetic, and food testing of pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food practicing units in the province.

Ms. Trieu Thi Huong, Director of the Center, said: With the continuous development of science and technology, the Center always encourages and creates all conditions for officers and civil servants to update their knowledge and participate in scientific research, apply technical innovation initiatives, and solutions to apply technical advances to perform tasks. In the period of 2020 - 2025, the Center has accepted and applied 10 grassroots topics; 52 initiatives. From there, the total number of active ingredients that the unit can test gradually increases each year. To date, the Center has conducted research and testing of 398 active ingredients of drug, cosmetic, and functional food sample bases.

Training and skill improvement training are also always focused on, the unit regularly sends officers and employees to attend training courses to improve the capacity of testing drugs, cosmetics, and food. Methods of testing medicinal herbs, oriental medicines, microorganisms, cosmetics, and food have been widely and effectively deployed, many new active ingredients have been deployed, many of which are multi-component samples.

Every year, the center conducts inspections, supervision, and sampling at provincial hospitals, regional health centers, commune and ward health stations, and drug retail establishments in the province. In the past 5 years, the center has inspected, supervised, collected samples of drugs, cosmetics, and food, and provided guidance on self-inspection of drug quality and preservation at facilities for 1,861 establishments. The number of samples tested for drug, medicinal herbs, and cosmetics quality always exceeds the assigned target, reaching 156 - 295% of the annual plan.

The center has promptly advised the Department of Health on the management of drug, cosmetic and food quality in the province. From 2020 to now, the center has proposed to recall 150 substandard samples, of which over 50 samples were collected in 2020 and 2021 each year. In addition, the center has guided and promptly handled cases that do not meet the conditions for trading drugs, cosmetics and food, contributing positively to the management of the quality of drug, cosmetic and food products in the province.

With the results achieved, in the period of 2020-2025, the center received 5 certificates of merit from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, 1 certificate of merit from the Minister of Health. In particular, in 2022, the center was honored to receive the Emulation Flag of the Ministry of Health and the Third-class Labor Medal of the President for its outstanding achievements in work from 2018 to 2022, contributing to the cause of building socialism and defending the Fatherland. The Provincial Drug, Cosmetic and Food Testing Center is one of 10 outstanding collectives commended and rewarded at the conference to commend typical advanced models in the provincial health sector in the period of 2020-2025.

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