Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Industrial Visit to CCM Duopharma Biotech Bhd



Hello readers,


School of Pharmacy had an industrial visit to CCM Duopharma Biotech Berhad which is the 1st pharmaceutical company producing generic drugs in Malaysia. The visit was held at 21st of February 2011 which falls on Monday scheduled at 2pm. The industrial visit idea was generated from the project manager, Chua Pei Yong.


Target student is 20 students accompanied by the Head of Department Mr. Mohd Fadli, lecturers Mr. Mohd Nizam and Dr. Jiyauddin Khan. The group was greeted warmly by the representative of CCM Duopharma, Puan Nurhariati and Mr Affandi. An interesting presentation basically on CCM Duopharma was given to the students about the generic products production at our country. They even launching for refilling human vaccines five years later and the first south east Asia who got this contract signed. Q and A session was interesting because the students were curious about the job opportunites in pharmaceutical industries.


They offered some refreshments and we had a rest before they bought us touring around the company. Firstly, we were bought to the water treatment system. According to Mr. Satish which was the person in-charge for water treatment system, the water plays vital roles for providing the desired quality of pharmaceutical products. The water treatment were using reverse osmosis (RO) system. After that, we are brought to the production department while can observed the making of pharmaceutical products such as tablets in a sterilized conditions with HEPA filters at box.


Then, we proceed to the warehouse department and we got to know how the pharmaceutical products being stored and its precautions. After that, we proceed to QC and QA department which was the last part of the trip. This is an open mind and informative industrial visit for the students. Hope the School of Pharmacy will organize this meaningful event again.

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