Under whose active direction and personal supervision manufacturing of medicines takes place. The pharmaceutical production companies need such persons to obtain license for manufacturing.
Graduates of pharmacy with 18 months of experience in manufacturing are treated as competent technical staff under Drugs and Cosmetics Act which regulates the Drug Industries
This job of looking after manufacturing of medicines is very interesting and responsible. There are scopes of promotion too to the highest position as works manager or factory manager
Quality Control (QC) personnel have the responsibility of ensuring that the test specifications for all materials, starting, in process and final are met.
The programs for chemical and microbiological stability testing is a program that is under the QC purview.
Quality Assurance(QA) is a total process for assuring the quality of pharmaceutical product manufacturing, testing and documentation is as per standard specified in regulatory guidance.
Quality Assurance has a component of In-Process Quality Assurance(IPQA) program, which deals with checking and ensuring that the manufacturing of the product is occurring in line with laid down procedures’ and systems.
The medicines are not only required to be effective but must be safe and of assured quality.
In order to assure efficacy, safety and quality, the entire pharmaceutical scenario, from manufacturing to sale of medicines, is regulated by the central and state government through a process of licensing and inspecting. And teams in the RA department provide
In Marketing: Pharmaceutical marketing is different from marketing of other consumer goods. Here, real consumer, the patient, has little or no choice. The marketing takes place through doctors and chemists.
Thus the job is more challenging and requires special skill and training as they deal with highly qualified doctors in one hand and the professional business man (often called drug trader in common terminology).
This is a never saturating professional area and jobs are available always. The sales personal are called as medical representatives or business executives. They can grow from medical representatives to general manager.
