A drug inspector is responsible for monitoring and ensuring the safety, quality, and effectiveness of drugs from production to sale. To become a drug inspector, candidates must have a pharmacy or pharmaceutical science degree, 18 months of relevant work experience, and pass a written exam consisting of two papers testing knowledge of pharmacy and general knowledge. Drug inspectors have the power to inspect any premises or records involved in drug manufacturing, sample and test drugs, inspect licenses, and cancel licenses of businesses found to have quality or standards issues. The role requires skills in discipline, patience, self-confidence, and keeping updated in the pharmaceutical field.

1. DRUG INSPECTOR

2. CONTENT
 Drug Inspector (introduction)
 Qualifications and eligibility to become
drug inspector
Key skills
 Drug inspector exam format
Power of drug inspector

3. DRUG INSPECTOR (introduction)
 Drug inspector is a professional in the
field of pharmacy, who is an expert in
monitering and executing safety, quality and
usefulness of drugs from the production
stage to the selling stage.

4. Qualification and eligibility to
become drug inspector
 Candidate are required to go through a selection
process conducted by the UPSC (union public servise
commission) and/or SPSCs (state public service
commission).
 Minimum age required :-21 years old.
 Maximum age required:-30 years old and relaxation
of 5 years for reserved catogary candidates at some
organisations.

5.  Candidate need to have complete his gradution
in pharmacy or pharmaceutical science or clinical
pharmacology from a recoganise university.
 18 months experience in manufacture of schedule C
drug. Or 18 months experience in testing of schedule
C drug.

6. Key skills
Discipline
Patience
Self-confidence
The capacity of performing tests
Update with occurring the pharmaceutical
field.

7. Drug inspector exam format
 The written test or exam will consist of two exam papers with 250 total marks.
 All the question paper will be setr in English medium and the same should be
answered in English mode only.
Paper name Subject name Marks No. of objective
multiple choice
questions
Paper - 1 pharmacy 200 100
Paper -2 Genral knowledge 50 50

8. POWER OF DRUG INSPECTOR
 Any premises where in any drug or cosmetics is
being manufactured and the means employed for
standerdizing and testing the drug or cosmetics.
 Take sample of any drug or cosmetics for testing of
their quality.
 Inspection of premises license for sale.

9.  Inspection of manufactured drugs.
Examine any records ,register documents or any
other materials object with any person.
 Drug inspector has the authority to cancel the
license of such business units which are found having
irregularities in term of complains of standerds related
to safety quality and hygenic premises.

10. REFERENCEs
Textbook of forensic pharmacy by:- C K KOKATE ,S B GOKHALE
An imprint of pharma book syntedicate. Page no 67-69.
Wikipedia from google.
Also taken from YOU TUBE that link is
https://youtu.be/ihE31GWQ80o

11. Thank you Presented by
SOURABH KUMAR