National Quality Control Labs (NQCL)

National Quality Control Laboratory is mandated to conduct the following:

(i) The examination and testing of drugs and ensuring the quality control of drugs and medicinal substances;

(ii) performing chemical, biological, biochemical, physiological and pharmacological analysis and other pharmaceutical evaluation; and

(iii) testing, at the request of the board and on behalf of the government, of locally manufactured and imported drugs or medicinal substances with a view to determining whether such drugs or medicinal substances comply with local laws.

The website contains the cost of tests conducted by the laboratory as well as instructions on how to submit samples to the laboratory.