Procedure to apply for Drug Inspector Exam

Guys, can you tell me the Procedure to apply for APPSC Drug Inspector Exam??? What are the basic requirements to apply????

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Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission conducts Drug Inspector Exam for recruitment to the posts of drug inspector in state government service. Here are the details of it:

Eligibility:
The applicant should hold Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Science or Medicine with Specialization in Clinical Pharmacology or Microbiology from a University established in India by Law.

Procedure to apply:
You can fill the online application form through the official website of the APPSC.

Paper pattern:
GENERAL STUDIES & MENTAL ABILITY - 150 Marks - 150 Questions - 150 Minutes

SUBJECT (ONE PAPER) - 300 Marks - 150 Questions - 150 Minutes

Syllabus:
This is the syllabus of exam:

1. Importance of various Pharmacopeas with special reference to Indian Pharmacopoes, British Pharmacopea, Unites States Pharmacopoea and International Pharmacopoes.

2. Sources of drugs: Plant, Animal, Mineral, Synthetic and Biotechnological drugs.

3. Preparation of Infusions, Decoctions, Tinctures, Solutions, Soft and Dry extracts. Introduction and classification of various pharmaceutical dosage forms.

4. Various parts of “Prescription” handling of pres criptions preliminary knowledge of importantLatin terms useful in interpretation of prescription and their translation into English.

5. Posology: Calculation of dosage for infants, children adults and elderly persons. Alcohol dilutions, Proof spirit, Isotonic solutions, Displa cement value.

6. Brief outline of communicable diseases, their causative agents, modes of transmission and their prevention (Chicken pox, Tuberculosis, Malari a, Filaria, Leprosy, Sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS).

7. First Aid: Emergency treatment of shock, snake-bites, burns, poisoning and fractures.

8. Classification of microbes their structure and identification. Bacterial growth, nutritional requirements and staining.

9. Contamination of pharmaceuticals in hospital and community environments by microbes.

10. Sterilization: Definition, types, procedure and testing.

11. Sterilization of materials, equipments and utencils used in hospitals, centralized and
decentralised sterilization. Drug distribution system in hospitals for out-patients and inpatients.
12. Opthalmic preparations: formulations, methods of preparation, containers and evaluation.
13. Collection, processing, storage and evaluation of blood, blood products and plasma –
substitutes
14. Surgical products: Surgical cotton, surgical guazes, bandages, sutures, ligatures and
catguts.
15. Definition and types of incompatibilities (Physical Chemical and Therapeutic), correction
of incompatibilities.
16. Anatomy and physiology of Cardio-vascular system and related common disorders like
hypertension, hypotension, angina, myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure.
17. Anatomy and physiology of Digestive system and related disorders like peptic ulcers,
constipation, diarrhoea and jaundice.
18. Functions of different parts of Brain and spinal cord, Neuohumoral transmission in the
central nervous system and autonomic nervous system.
19. Drugs, acting on cardiovascular system: Digitalis and other cardiac glycosides, antihypertensive
drugs, anti-anginal and vasodilators including calcium channel antagonists.
20. Drugs acting on Gastro-intestinal tract: antacids, anti-ulcer drugs, anti-emetics, laxatives
and anti diarrhoeal drugs.
21. Drugs acting on central nervous systems: Sadatives, hypnotics, anti-anxiety agents,
centrally acting muscle relaxants, anti-epileptics, analgesic, anti-phyretic and antiinflammatory
drugs.
22. Antigens, anti-bodies, antigen-anti body reactions, hypersensitivity active and passive
immunity types of vaccines.
23. Historical development of antibiotics. Isolation of fermentation products with special
reference to pencillins and tetracyclines.
24. Carbohydrate metabolism: Glycolysis, glucogenesis, glucogenolysis, glycogen formation,
pentose phosphate pathway, uronic acid pathway, abnormalities of carbohydrate
metabolism.
25. Introduction and principles of anti-microbial therapy Cotrimoxazole, fluorauinelones,
newer pencillins, broad spectrum antibiotics, cephalosporins, macrolides, anti-tubercular,
anti-leprotic, antifungal and anti-viral drugs.
26. Anti protozoan and anthelmintic drugs. Chemitheraphy of neoplastic diseases.
27. Salient features of Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules, 1945 with special
reference to Duties and powers of Inspectors. Composition and functions of statutory
bodies.

28. Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Act, 1985 with special reference to
procurement and utilization of dosage forms.