Drugs and Chemicals tragedy: short communication

Authors

  • Khomendra Kumar Sarwa Government Girl’s Polytechnic, Raipur (C.G) India 492001
  • Prabhat Kumar Vishwakarma Department of Pharmacy, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur (C.G.) India 495009

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30732/IJBBB.20190402001

Keywords:

Chemicals, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical tragedy, Chhattisgarh sterilization tragedy

Abstract

Drug and chemical are very sensitive compound in respect to use as well as production, transport and storage. In the history so many human error have been made a big and small tragedy. The available information is summarized in this paper

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Published

2019-08-17

How to Cite

Sarwa, K. K., & Vishwakarma, P. K. (2019). Drugs and Chemicals tragedy: short communication. CSVTU International Journal of Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Biomedical, 4(2), 28–35. https://doi.org/10.30732/IJBBB.20190402001

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