CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -With this, a new beginning has been made and Afghanistan has become the first country to recognize IP pursuant to the efforts of the Department of Commerce and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Detailed explanation-2: -The actual process of publishing the first Pharmacopoeia started in 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest known officially sponsored pharmacopoeia was compiled in 659 AD by a team of 23 pharmaceutical scientists led by Su jing during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) and was called the Xinxiu bencao (Newly Revised Canon of Materia Medica).

Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) is published by the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) on behalf of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India to fulfil the requirements of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940.

Detailed explanation-5: -He said it is high time other countries recognized our IP as a book of quality standards as India has already become the ‘pharmacy of the world’. India exports, mainly generics, to more than 250 countries and one out of the three drugs consumed by a patient in any part of the globe is from India.