SwastiChemEx: Animal house facility

Thursday 10 July 2014

Animal house facility

he approval given by the ministry of environment & forests (MoE&F) for the large animal house facility set up by the Frontier Mediville, a medical science park developed in a SEZ area near Chennai by Frontier Lifeline Hospitals & Dr K M Cherian Heart Foundation, has attracted the clinical research organisations (CROs) and pharma manufacturing industry in Tamil Nadu.

The Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments of Animals (CPCSEA) under the Animal Welfare Division of the ministry has approved the animal house facility in its 47th meeting held on 20th May this year. Now the hospital can house dog, sheep and pig for research work. It is also approved for the research and breeding of mice, rat, hamster, guinea pigs and rabbits, says the certification.

Hailing the government approval for the clinical research in Tamil Nadu, T S Jayashankar, managing director of Quest Life Sciences, a contract clinical research organisation in Chennai, said the animal house would provide facilities for animal studies for drug development and help a lot for the pharma industry in the state. He said he was amazed to see the facility at the centre.

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