The first chemists showed up in Russia in

The first chemists showed up in Russia in 1547.

Chemist - a specialized organization of the health system, which is producing, packaging, analyzing and sale drugs.

Chemist should be located in the premises corresponding to the requirements of the pharmaceutical institutions. Use of premises under the pharmacy is allowed only after the positive conclusion of sanitary-epidemiological service.

By the nature of the activities chemists are dividing into: ØManufactured drugs prescribed by doctors, standard recipe with their subsequent implementation within the legal person by prescription and without a prescription, implements finished medicines and other products authorized for release of pharmaceutical organizations, public prescription or without a doctor's prescription. These include: a chemist with the production department, a chemist with the right to manufacture drugs;

Øimplements readymade medicines authorized for release of pharmaceutical organizations, public prescription or without prescription and health care institutions: this chemists formulations, chemists without the right to manufacture drugs, pharmacy and chemist shop.

The composition of the chemists: v Trade Hall. The trading floor, depending on the workload of pharmacies must be equipped with workstations for receiving recipes and ready-made vacation prescription medication dispensing and medical products without a prescription.

v Rooms for the preparation of drugs. Must be equipped with a special pharmacy furniture, appliances, equipment for cooking, mixing, filtration, packaging, labeling, packaging and sealing of drugs, as well as safe storage of toxic and narcotic drugs, ethyl alcohol, measuring of weight, volume, specific gravity , reagents for chemical control of medicines. The room for the preparation of medicines should be arranged jobs for the preparation and quality control of medicines.

v Rooms for distilling water. Its equipment must ensure that the requirements for the sanitary regime prohibited chemists and perform other non-distilled water.

v Washing room. Its equipment must ensure that the requirements for the sanitary regime of chemists. In the washing room should be isolated and labeled sinks for washing dishes, intended for the preparation of dosage forms: - Injections and eye drops; - Intravenous; - Exterior.

v Rooms for storing medicines and medical products. Must be fitted with shelves, cabinets and other necessary equipment to ensure the safety of toxic, narcotic, potent, flammable, heat-sensitive and other drugs, medicinal plants, medical devices according to their physical and chemical properties.

Room for employers. Additional rooms to perform chemist’s main task: - Aseptic unit for the preparation of aseptic and sterile dosage forms; - Autoclave; - Specialist analyst’s office; -Room for pyrogen-free water; - The premises for storage of flammable, and other heat-sensitive drugs requiring special storage conditions, in accordance with their physicochemical properties.

All chemist’s staff can be divided into the following groups: - Executives; - Experts; - production personnel.