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Reinforced Management over Controlled 4
Drugs and Prevention Against Drug
Abuse
II. Strengthening the capability TFDA and the concerned authorities are
for NPS testing working together through sharing the Raman
spectrum database to keep illicit drugs out of
To demolish the restriction on NPS borders.
identification from insufficient built-in
database, TFDA has built up its own spectrum II. Strengthening the capability
database of hand-held Raman spectrometer for NPS testing
which covers 2,234 items of NPS and
medicinal products. In addition, 1,165 standard The national laboratories of TFDA
spectra have been built up and updated to are evolving strengthening the capability
the Drug Abuse Test Report System for sake for NPS testing, including applying gas
the drug testing laboratories to review and chromatography-mass spectrometry and liquid
download. chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
for seizures identification, sharing the spectra
▍ Achievements and Benefits database which 3,979 reviews in total were
done by 19 laboratories, and providing
I. Promotion of combating and standards which 99 items in total were given
experience exchange on to 23 laboratories for developing analytical
analytical technology for methods or for NPS identification. The
NPS aforementioned efforts have brought out
diverse fronts for combating illicit drugs from
prevailing.
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