The latest Edition of Indian Pharmacopoeia, IP-2018 was released on 29th September, 2017 by Shri. C K Mishra, Secretary Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India in the presence of senior officers of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and the IP Commission.
The Indian Pharmacopoeia is an authoritative and legally enforceable book of standard of drugs manufactured/marketed in India. It is published by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) on behalf of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India in fulfillment of the requirements of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and the Rules there under. It intends to help in the licensing of manufacturing, inspection and distribution of medicines.
Publication of IP on regular basis is an important mandate of IPC aimed at improvement of health of the people and animals through ensuring the quality, safety and efficacy of medicines. The commission has been receiving significant advisory and directions from regulatory and valuable inputs from industrial houses, academic institutions, national laboratories, individual scientists and others. On behalf of the Animal Health industry, INFAH supported the endeavor and worked cohesively with IPC for the IVth Volume of IP' 2018 oriented for animal health formulations, active pharmaceutical ingredients, biologicals and diagnostics. Considering the consistent persuasions of INFAH, IPC has agreed to market the Veterinary volume as part of the complete set as well alone as desired by the manufacturing units. The Indian Pharmacopeia (complete set) would be priced at fifty thousand INR while only the Veterinary volume would be available at five thousand INR.
IP-2018 has been brought out in 4 Volumes incorporating 220 new monographs (Chemical Monographs (170), Herbal Monographs (15), Blood and Blood related products (10), Vaccines and Immunosera for Human use monographs (02), Radiopharmaceutical monographs (03), Biotechnology Derived Therapeutic Products (06), Veterinary monographs (14), 366 revised monographs and 7 omissions.
