7-590: Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission ( IPC ) is an autonomous institution of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare which sets standards for all drugs that are manufactured, sold and consumed in India. The set of standards are published under the title Indian Pharmacopoeia ( IP ) which has been modeled on and historically follows from the British Pharmacopoeia . The standards that are in effect since 1 December 2010, are
14-417: Is a department responsible for technical knowledge concerning Public Health, Medical Education and Health Care. Organizations and Institutes under DGHS are: The Department of Health deals with health care , including awareness campaigns, immunisation campaigns, preventive medicine , and public health . Bodies under the administrative control of this department are: The Department of Family Welfare (FW)
21-557: Is an Indian government ministry charged with health policy in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family planning in India . The Minister of Health and Family Welfare holds cabinet rank as a member of the Council of Ministers . The current minister is Jagat Prakash Nadda , while the current Minister of State for health (MOS: assistant to Minister i.e. currently assistant to J. P. Nadda) are Anupriya Patel and Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav . Since 1955
28-556: The Indian Pharmacopoeia 2010 (IP 2010) . The Pharmacopoeia 2014 was released by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on 4 November 2013. The Pharmacopoeia 2018 was released by Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. I.P. , the abbreviation of 'Indian Pharmacopoeia' is familiar to the consumers in the Indian sub-continent as a mandatory drug name suffix. Drugs manufactured in India have to be labelled with
35-593: The Ministry regularly publishes the Indian Pharmacopoeia through the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), an autonomous body for setting standards for drugs, pharmaceuticals and healthcare devices and technologies in India. The ministry is composed of two departments and six subordinate offices. Department of Health and Family Welfare and Department of Health Research and Directorate General of Health Services. The Directorate General of Health Services
42-586: 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 IPC was formed according to the Indian Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1940 and established by executive orders of the Government of India in 1956. The actual process of publishing the first Pharmacopoeia started in
49-517: The year 1944 under the chairmanship of Col. R. N. Chopra . The I. P. list was first published in the year 1946 and was put forth for approval. The titles are suffixed with the respective years of publication, e.g., IP 1996. The following table describes the publication history of the Indian Pharmacopoeia. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India) The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare , also known by its abbreviation MoHFW ,
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