There are lot to do Dr. Kindly go through the above link,

envfor.nic.in/divisions/awd/cpcsea_laboratory.pdf

if anyother help you are in need, let me know as we do have our own animal house

Thanks Sushil. I had the pdf you suggested in your answer. Actually I need to have an insight into the basic facilities for the lab other than the things mentioned in the pdf. The floor space, equipments needed (what instruments are required in very initial stages) and other requirements and problems which come during initial settings. Hope u got my point...

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Development of a laboratory for herbal research up to pre-clinical stage requires the involvement of following specialties. You can develop based on your budget availability. 1.The traditional practitioners (to provide right and good herbal formula based past experiences 2.Pharmacognosy/Botany specialist to verify and identify true herbs as per taxonomic and medicinal values 3. Phyto-chemistry specialist to isolate and identify active compounds 4.Pharmacology specialty lab to verify claimed medicinal values. Each specialty lab needs are different .If you wish to start all these specialty labs at at time a minimum budget of INR 4 million to 40 million can be spent. The cost of setting first two specialty labs (Traditional medicines and Pharmacognosy ) is less ,,, but for phytochemical and pharmacology labs it depends on various instruments needed for selected biological screening .

Thanks Dr. Chakravarthy for the very important information. Can you please suggest at initial stages what are the instruments and requirements we need to purchase apart from the normal lab chemicals? The chromatographic instruments, specialised instruments, animal lab requirements etc. We have to grow up from the roots in this case. Thanks for ur valuable support in advance.

Dr.Nahata...the list is vast... Pl. ref..the following for some details of equip. you can contact me for more details at [email protected]

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Thanks Dr. Chakravarty for valuable information. I will be in touch for ur valuable suggestions.

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Dear Dr. Alok, You really put a good question here. I have set a Microbiology lab in my Department and am willing to extend it for medicinal plants extraction as well. You can basically take start with the extraction instruments and chemicals in particular.

Thanks Dr. Syed. I will keep a note of ur suggestion.

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You should consider having a platelet aggregometer in the new laboratory. One of the risks associated with herbals is their effect on platelet function.

@ William Trolio. Thanks for focusing the attention on a very important aspect . Noted it with thanks.

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What are the regulatory concerns for this laboratory? Is approval from certain authorities required and which are the ones to be approached?