CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Almora, Uttarakhand under the administrative control of Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India has applied for “WHO-GMP/COPP certification for 18 Ayurvedic products.

Detailed explanation-2: -The WHO GMP certificate is mandatory in most global markets for pharmaceutical companies to be able to sell medicines. The certificate of pharmaceutical product (CPP or CoPP) is a certificate issued in the format recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Detailed explanation-3: -COPP stands for Certificate of Pharmaceutical Products. This certificate is strictly recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and it is mandatory for the countries importing goods or medicines to submit this certificate.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first WHO draft text on GMP was adopted in 1968. In 1969, when the World Health Assembly recommended the first version of the WHO Certification Scheme on the quality of pharmaceutical products moving in the global market, it accepted the WHO GMP as an integral part of the Scheme.