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.
- Functions:
- Its basic function is to update regularly 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 a fixed drug eruption?
It is a distinctive variant of drug-induced dermatoses with characteristic recurrence at the same site of the skin or mucous membranes.
It is known to occur more frequently with antimicrobials and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs than with other drugs.
Q1: What is Generic Drug?
It is a medication that has exactly the same active ingredient as the brand-name drug and yields the same therapeutic effect.
Source: IPC issues alert on painkiller drug nimesulide over adverse reaction
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