HEALTH minister A Ramdoss has recently unveiled the Indian Pharmacopoeia, the text of formularies of medicines. Many years of strenuous work of Indian pharmacologists has gone into the making of the Pharmacopoeia, which comprises a comprehencive (and continuously revisable) list of pharmaceutical substances and formulas for making medicinal preparations. With this, India has now joined about a dozen countries that have their own Pharmacopoeias. If the country also equips itself with enough modern drug testing facilities and steps up its pharmaco - vigilance systems, that would go a long way in the harminisations of India's drug regulatory standards with the West. This would also help pharmaceutical exporters as they queue up before regulators abroad for the certification of their products. The Centre should fulfil its oft-repeated promise to set up a Central Drug Authority without any further delay.
Published in -The Economic Times , New Delhi, Friday, 21 December '2007.
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