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 …

The Eighth edition of Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP-2018) is published by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India in fulfillment of the requirements of the Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 1940 and the Rules there under.

A pharmacopoeia is a legally binding collection of standards and quality specifications for medicines used in a country or region. General requirements may also be given on important subjects related to medicines quality, such as analytical methods, microbiological purity, dissolution testing, or stability (1).

Mahadeva Lal Schroff: father of Indian pharmacy education.

In addition to USP, there are three other large pharmacopeias in the world, the European Pharmacopoeia (EP), the British Pharmacopoeia (BP), and the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP), all of which share the goal of publishing and producing quality standards for pharmaceuticals.

In France, the pharmacopoeia consists of the texts of the European Pharmacopoeia and of the French Pharmacopoeia, including the ″overseas″ pharmacopoeia. Other countries, e.g. the United Kingdom, have decided to fully integrate the texts of the Ph. Eur.

Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is a reference book published by Pharmaceutical Press listing some 6,000 drugs and medicines used throughout the world, including details of over 180,000 proprietary preparations. It was first published in 1883 under the title Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia.

A number of early pharmacopoeia books were written by Persian and Arab physicians. These included The Canon of Medicine of Avicenna in 1025, and works by Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) in the 12th century (and printed in 1491), and Ibn Baytar in the 14th century.

1820

Drugs manufactured in India have to be labelled with the mandatory non-proprietary drug name with the suffix I.P. This is similar to the B.P. suffix for British Pharmacopoeia and the U.S.P. suffix for the United States Pharmacopeia.

“The colours green and blue are claimed as a distinctive feature of the trade mark as shown in the representation attached to the application form.” “The applicant claims the colours green and blue as a distinctive feature of the trade mark”. “The colours green and blue are a distinctive feature of the trade mark”.

IP stand For Indian Pharmacopoeia. USP stand for United State Pharmacopoeia.

IP Losses means any and all costs, liabilities, fees, expenses, fines, damages, judgments, penalties, and other out of pocket amounts incurred by FMI (excluding any internal FMI costs): (i) in connection with FMI’s defense (whether sole or joint) against Third-Party Infringement Suits; or (ii) pursuant to FMI’s …

1946

First official Pharmacopeia of India appeared in 1868 which was edited by Edward John Waring. In preindependence days, British Pharmacopeia was used in India. The colonial addendum of BP 1898 was published in 1900 appeared as Government of India edition in 1901. It was prepared by Dept.

The history of the IP began in the year 1833 when a committee of the East Indian Company’s Dispensary recommended the Publication a Pharmacopoeia and Bengal Pharmacopoeia and General Conspectus of Medicinal Plants was published in 1844, which mainly listed most of the commonly used indigenous remedies.

161 formulations monographs, 18 excipient monographs, 43 NDS monographs, 10 antibiotic monographs, 19 anticancer monographs, 11 antiviral h i l d d i thi diti monographs are included in this edition.

Citation Data

1. MLA. Government of India, Ministry of Health. Pharmacopoeia of India : (the Indian Pharmacopoeia). Delhi :Manager of Publications, 1955.
2. APA. Government of India, Ministry of Health. ( 1955).
3. Chicago. Government of India, Ministry of Health. Pharmacopoeia of India : (the Indian Pharmacopoeia).

Prof. M. L. Schroff