Controls include product inspection, where every product is examined visually for fine detail before the product is sold into the external market. Inspectors are provided with lists and descriptions of unacceptable product to avoid unsatisfactory feedback.

Quality control emphasizes testing of products to uncover defects and reporting to management who make the decision to allow or deny product release, whereas quality assurance attempts to improve and stabilize supplying to avoid, or at least minimize, issues which led to the defect(s) in the first place. Usually, it is not the job of the quality control team or professional to correct quality issues. Typically, other individuals are involved in the process of discovering the cause of quality issues and fixing them. After the problems are overcome and the proper quality has been achieved, the product or service continues production or implementation as usual.

Quality Control (QC) is the process of executing a system with the intent of finding defects. The Quality Control system in a fully centralized procurement organization entails all the below measures:

  • Sampling
  • Quality Testing
  • Analytical clearance to ensure that all the drugs procured conforms to established specifications for identity, strength, purity and other characteristics.

Each batch of Drug procured by the Corporation is being tested through Empanelled Analytical Laboratories to ensure the prescribed standards before release to different institutions. Corporation has empanelled accredited laboratories from all over India for testing the quality of drugs procured by the Corporation.

Significance/Importance

Quality Control includes product inspection, where every product is examined for fine detail before the product reaches the end user. The quality of the output is at risk if the quality testing is deficient in any way. Analytical quality control, commonly referred to as AQC includes all those processes and procedures designed to ensure that the results of laboratory analysis are consistent, comparable, accurate and within specified limits of precision.

Quality Control procedure

In order to get good quality of drugs it is essential to test all the drugs which have been procured. The drugs should be tested before it is consumed. This ensures that the procurement process is fool proof to the extent that only quality medicine reaches the end user and no compromise on this front is acceptable.

The Quality Control procedure currently being followed at BMSICL is as mentioned below:

  • Samples from each batch are taken for each drug received at the warehouse and sent to Laboratories for quality testing purpose.
  • The information received from the warehouses will be fed into the system.
  • The system generates a random sample pick after common batch elimination and those samples are sent to the labs.
  • The samples that are sent to lab are maintained by Head Office Q.C. System.
  • The results of the test are captured and warehoused by the system.
  • Failure reports are also maintained in the system.
  • If the test reports are negative then the stock is frozen from issue, throughout the distribution channels by the system and the suppliers are asked to replace it.
  • Frozen stock details are maintained separately.
  • Lab Bill