About IPC

Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is an autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Health andFamily Welfare, Government of India to set standards of drugs in the country with a vision ‘to promotethe highest standards of drugs for use in human and animals’ and mission ‘to promote public health inIndia by bringing out authoritative and officially accepted standard for quality of drugs’. It has basicfunction to update regularly the standards of drugs by publishing official written standard in the formof Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP). IPC also provides measurement standards in the form of IPRS which actas a finger print for identification of an article under test and its purity as prescribed in IP.

Indian Pharmacopoeia

Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) is the official book of standards of medicines being manufactured and/ormarketed in India. IP contains collection of authoritative procedures of analysis of drugs with specifiedlimits. IP prescribes standards for identity, purity, safety and strength of drugs both for human andanimals. The IP, or any part of it, has got legal status under the Second Schedule of the Drugs &Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules 1945 there under. IP standards are authoritative in nature and areenforced by the regulatory authorities for quality control of medicines in India. During qualityassurance and at the time of dispute in the court of law the IP standards are legally acceptable.