Sahul India Limited takes utmost care in every aspect of the Quality Control measures to ensure its consumer the ever-best product in terms of safety and efficacy. Starting with raw materials and packaging materials it adopts standard protocols for checking quality of semi-finished and finished products. Every ayurvedic healthcare product goes into market passes through stringent quality control in every step.
Sahul's Quality Control Department is well managed by a team of experienced professionals and supported by a set of Laboratories that work intrinsically under the same umbrella. The Laboratories, work in coherent fashion are:
These laboratories as per the Pharmacopoeial Standard conduct tests pertaining to Quality Control. Where the tests are not available, the test is performed according to the herbal products manufacturers specification. We have also standard in-house parameters for drug evaluation. The quality control section verifies all the raw materials, monitors in process, conducts quality checking during process and controls the quality of finished product being released to finished goods warehouse.
Quality Control Department keeps manufacturing record for various manufacturing processes. To verify the supplied raw materials and finished products, the department preserves control samples of used raw materials and finished products of each batch for at least 3 years.
Quality Control Department also supervises and monitors adequacy of conditions under which raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products are stored. This enables data for proper storage requirements for the drugs and also helps to establish shelf life.
Hence, the manufactured products released for sale are of highest international standard. Moreover this enables Sahul India Limited . to deliver Ayurvedic pharmaceuticals and herbal personal care products with uniform levels of safety and consistency.
GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICES (GLP)
Sahul India Limited . complies with the provisions of Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) that is the standard operating procedures, organizational process, test facilities, personnel & test systems to ensure the following things:
LABORATORY FACILITIES
Sahul India Limited . has the latest state-of-the art laboratory infrastructure facilities to conduct Research activities. Our laboratory is well equipped with modern scientific instruments and managed by highly qualified and experienced Scientists, Chemists and Technologists.
PHARMACOGNOSY LABORATORY
Here we ensure that the raw materials comprising medicinal & aromatic plants, essential oils, fixed oils, extracts that are going into our formulations are authenticated with respect to pharmacognostical specifications. All the crude drugs are identified and authenticated through pharmacognostical studies. A crude drug museum has been set up that has a myriad display of preserved crude drugs including Herbaria. Herbaria are being prepared by collection of a wide range of plant specimens from different parts of the country. This crude drug museum is an integral part of our Pharmacognosy laboratory that serves the purpose of authentication.
We have documented and prepared Monographs for all the raw materials going into our formulations as per pharmacoepial guidelines by detailing its Morphology, Microscopy and Powder Analysis and also prepared permanent slides for documentation.
PHYTOCHEMISTRY LABORATORY
The chemical constituents are responsible for medicinal and therapeutic efficacy of the crude drug. Thereby it's of prime importance to conduct an extensive screening of the chemical constituents contained in the raw materials going into our formulation. Here we conduct the extensive screening in the following lines:
For the categories of constituents like Alkaloids, Glycosides, Tannins, Volatile oils, Resins, Gums, Fixed oil etc. we do Qualitative and Quantitative Screening of the chief constituent as per following methods:
MICROBIOLOGY
We maintain protocols and procedures for Microbial standards including pathogens for our certain raw materials and obviously for our finished products. Since crude drugs, their powders, extracts and finished products are susceptible to fungal and bacterial growth much faster that the synthetic chemicals a critical microbiological assay is essential. The following testing are conducted in our microbiology laboratory:
We consider that the microbiological tests are crucial for delivering quality herbal personal care products and Ayurvedic pharmaceuticals.
INSTRUMENTATION
This plays a vital role in quality assessment and standardization of any formulation as well as raw materials. Our instrument laboratory is well equipped with state-of-art instruments comprising following:
We maintain standard for the packaging material we use for our products. We ensure that by using various instrumental techniques as inferior packaging material leads to degradation of the content inside and there by diminishing the shelf-life of the product. More over we intend to put sufficient and correct label information so that it makes convenient for the users and medical practitioners. We have experts and technical staffs who are engaged in preparing and stringent quality checking of packaging material and labeling.
PACKAGING
