Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission

Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission Latest News

Recently, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission signs 3 MoUs with Nagaland Medical Council, Nagaland State Drugs Control Administration (NSDCA) and Nagaland State Pharmacy Council.

About Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission

• It is an autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India.
• It is created to set standards of drugs in the country.

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Functions of Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission

• Its basic function is to regularly update the standards of drugs commonly required for treatment of diseases prevailing in this region.
• It publishes official documents for improving Quality of Medicines by way of adding new and updating existing monographs in the form of Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP).
• It further promotes rational use of generic medicines by publishing National Formulary of India.
• It prescribes standards for identity, purity and strength of drugs essentially required from the health care perspective of human beings and animals.
• It also provides IP Reference Substances (IPRS) which act as a fingerprint for identification of an article under test and its purity as prescribed in IP.

What is Pharmacopoeia?

• The Pharmacopoeias are official compendia of quality standards of the drugs being imported, manufactured for sale, stocked or exhibited for sale or distributed in India.

Source: PIB