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Indian Immunologicals Ltd. (IIL) was founded by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1982 with the aim of providing foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccines to the farmers at affordable prices. The technology for FMD vaccine production was imported from M/s. Wellcome Foundation Limited, UK. In 2003, it invested Rs. 50 crore to set up an R&D facility in Hyderabad. IIL's manufacturing facility in Hyderabad has the capacity to produce 80 million trivalent doses of FMD vaccine. It has WHO-GMP and ISO-9001:2000 certified plant in Ooty for the production of veterinary vaccines. In 1989, IIL launched first tissue culture vaccine-Raksharab.
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