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Health Ministry plans 50 testing labs in 3 years The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has launched a major initiative to set up 50 state-of-the-art drug testing laboratories across the country within three years. While 20 of them are to be entirely new facilities, rest would come up through renovation and modernisation of existing laboratories. "All the 50 laboratories that are coming up in the country are to be NABL accredited. With the new laboratory facilities, the drug regulatory authority will be able to test thrice the number of drug samples in a year within a much lesser time", Teaotia said. With the upgraded capacity and the new laboratories, it is expected that about one lakh samples of drug would be tested for safety and quality per year. (Ref : "Chronicle Pharmabiz" dated March 31, 2005)