Monday, 25 December 2023

Who is the founder of Pharmacopoeia?

 

Charles Rice (1841-1901): creator of the modern scientific pharmacopoeia and father of the National Formulary

 Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is an Autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India. IPC is created to set standards of drugs in the country. 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. IP prescribes standards for identity, purity and strength of drugs essentially required from health care perspective of human beings and animals. IPC also provides IP Reference Substances (IPRS) which act as a finger print for identification of an article under test and its purity as prescribed in IP.

A pharmacopoeia is a legally-binding collection, prepared by a national or regional authority, of standards and quality specifications for medicines used in that country or region.

Some 60 pharmacopoeias (national, regional and subregional and international) are listed in the index compiled by WHO.

WHO initiated steps based on discussion during meetings of the International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA), especially the 10th ICDRA meeting held in Hong Kong in 2002, and a further discussion among regulators during the 11th ICDRA meeting held in Madrid in 2004, to organize an official meeting entitled International meeting of world pharmacopoeias for participation of all WHO Member States' pharmacopoeias worldwide, be they national, regional or international.

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