Vrindachikitsa

On receipt of a package from an Inspector containing a sample for test or analysis, the Government Analyst shall compare the seals on the packet or on portion of sample or container with the specimen impression received separately and shall note the condition of the seals on the packet or on portion of sample or container. After the test or analysis has been completed, he shall forthwith supply to the Inspector a report in triplicate in Form 13 of the result of the test or analysis, together with full protocols of the tests or analysis applied: Explanation.—It shall be deemed to be full and sufficient compliance with the requirement of the rule in respect of the supply of “protocols of the tests or analysis applied”, if— (1) for pharmacopoeial drug, where the tests or methods of analysis prescribed in the official pharmacopoeia are followed, references to the specific tests or analysis in the pharmacopoeias are given in the report; (2) for patent or proprietary medicines for which the tests and methods prescribed in any of the official pharmacopoeias are applicable and are followed, references to the specific tests or analysis in the pharmacopoeias are given in the report; (3) for patent or proprietary medicines containing pharmacopoeial drugs for which the official tests or analysis or methods of assays are modified and applied, a description of the actual tests or, as the case may be, analysis or methods of assays so applied is given in the report; (4) for patent or proprietary medicines for which no pharmacopoeial tests or methods of analysis are available or can be applied but for which tests or methods of analysis given in standard books or journals are followed, a description of such tests or methods of analysis applied together with the reference to the relevant books or journals from which the tests or methods of analysis have been adopted, is given in the report; (5) for those drugs for which methods of test are not available and have been evolved by the Government Analyst, a description of tests applied is given in the report.