Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Indian Pharmacopoeia 2007

Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, Hon’ble Minister for Health and FW, Government of India released the Indian Pharmacopoeia 2007 on 18th December, 2007 and the prescribed effective date of Indian Pharmacopoeia 2007 was 1st April 2008. Since some of the stakeholders expressed their inability to implement IP 2007 from the effective date, The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission in consultation with Drug Regulatory and other concerned authorities extended the date of implementation of IP 2007 not later than 1st July 2008.

IP 2007 comes in three volumes. Volume 1 contains the General Notices, Preface, the structure of the IPC, Acknowledgements, Introduction, and the General Chapters. Volume 2 deals with the General Monographs on Drug Substances, Dosage Forms and Pharmaceutical Aids (A to M). Volume 3 contains Monographs on Drug Substances, Dosage Forms and Pharmaceutical Aids (N to Z) followed by Monographs on Vaccines and Immunosera for Human use, Herbs and Herbal products, Blood and blood-related products, Biotechnology products and Veterinary products.

The IP Commission has strictly advised the stakeholders are advised to procure the authenticated copy of the IP 2007.

The IP 2007 can be procured from the office of the Secretary-cum-Scientific Director, IP Commission at CIPL Campus, Raj Nagar, Sector 23, Ghaziabad – 201 002 (UP) through Demand Draft @ Rs. 15000/- (Rupees fifteen thousand only) issued in favour of "Secretary-cum-Scientific Director, Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission" payable at Ghaziabad.

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