Metro India News | Hyderabad 

Karthik Siva Chaitanya, Drugs Inspector, Drugs Control Administration (DCA), Telangana, attended the advanced training program at the reputed Biotech Training Facility, Leiden, the Netherlands, along with ten other officers from the Central Government and the states of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.

A total of eleven officers from India have been trained in the Netherlands from January 27 to 31, 2025. The Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport (VWS), the Netherlands, and the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), Government of India, have a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) on cooperation in the field of medical products regulation.

Under the aegis of this MoI, the Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport (VWS), the Netherlands, in collaboration with the Biotech Training Facility (BTF), Leiden, the Netherlands, has offered training to the Drugs Regulatory Authorities of India.

Biotech Training Facility, Leiden, the Netherlands, is a hands-on training institute well-known both within and outside Europe for its practical Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and operational training in a real-life environment. It is situated in the Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP), the largest life sciences cluster in the Netherlands, which ranks among the top five science parks in Europe.

The training covered advanced Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) topics, including root cause analysis, critical aspects of production, upstream and downstream processing, conceptual design to a qualified facility, scientific problem-solving, contamination control, technology transfer, aseptic processes, and single-use technologies in biopharmaceutical production, blending theoretical concepts with practical demonstrations for enhanced understanding.