HYDERABAD: The United States Pharmacopeia (USP), an official public standard setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines and other healthcare products, is setting up its new facility at the Genome Valley (ICICI Knowledge Park) on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is likely to inaugurate the unit in September.A USP delegation led by its India branch vice president KV Surendranath on Wednesday called on the chief minister requesting him to inaugurate their Hyderabad facility.The facility is being established with an investment of about Rs 68 crore and will house analytical research and development, microbiology, micro-analytical and organic synthetic chemistry labs, besides boosting facilities to conduct training programmes.The organisation has been operating from a 10,000-sqft leased space in Hyderabad since the last five years.Surendranath said the objective of the organisation for expanding its India operations is because India offered a lot of opportunities for USP in many ways. They started as a collaborative testing laboratory in Hyderabad and are now planning to make it their central location for providing certification services for maintaining public standards in development of drugs, he said.
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