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What is the News?
The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare has launched the Sixth Edition of the National Formulary of India (NFI).
About National Formulary of India(NFI)
- Published by: Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission(IPC)
- Aim: To promote rational use of medicines in the country.
- Significance: The NFI will be very beneficial for Clinicians and Healthcare professionals while prescribing the medicines to the patients.
Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission(IPC)
IPC is an Autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Functions of IPC:
- To set standards of drugs in the country.
- To update regularly the standards of drugs commonly required for the treatment of diseases prevailing in this region.
- To publish official documents for improving the Quality of Medicines by way of adding new and updating existing monographs in the form of Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP).
- To further promote rational use of generic medicines by publishing the National Formulary of India.
- To prescribe standards for identity, purity and strength of drugs essentially required from the health care perspective of human beings and animals.
Source: This post is based on the article “Union Health Minister launches the Sixth Edition of National Formulary of India (NFI)” published in PIB on 28th October 2021.
