USFDA team meets minister

Ahmedabad: A quarterly meeting of the FDCA Gujarat-USFDA regulatory forum took place at state health and family welfare department in Gandhinagar on Tuesday. The visiting officials of the USFDA, country director Dr Sarah McMullen along with other officials Preetha Rajaraman, Dr Sudeendra Kulkarni, Syed Asrafuzzaman and international relations specialist of the USFDA Jacquin Jones attended the meeting. The officials discussed the progress made in the Indo-US vaccination programme. State health minister Rishikesh Patel extended the USFDA team an invitation to attend the Vibrant Gujarat summit next year. Apart from acquainting themselves with the latest USFDA regulations, the Gujarat team apprised the visiting US counterparts of the latest health welfare schemes initiated by the state government.