{"id":256799,"date":"2023-08-21T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=256799"},"modified":"2023-08-21T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:51:00","slug":"cabinet-approves-signing-of-mou-between-india-and-suriname-in-the-field-of-the-regulation-of-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-signing-of-mou-between-india-and-suriname-in-the-field-of-the-regulation-of-medicines\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves signing of MoU between India and Suriname in the field of the regulation of medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Cabinet approves signing of MoU between India and Suriname in the field of the regulation of medicines<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in <\/span><b>PIB on 16th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission(IPC) and the Ministry of Health of Suriname, aiming to recognize the Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) as a standard for medicines in Suriname.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Indian<\/b><b> Pharmacopoeia Commission(IPC)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is an autonomous institution of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IPC is created to set standards of drugs in the country. Its basic function is to regularly update the standards of drugs commonly required for treatment of diseases prevailing in this region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It publishes official documents for improving Quality of Medicines by way of adding new and updating existing monographs in the form of <\/span><b>Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP).\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It further promotes rational use of generic medicines by publishing <\/span><b>National Formulary of India.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also provides <\/span><b>IP Reference Substances (IPRS)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which act as a fingerprint for identification of an article under test and its purity as prescribed in IP.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the benefits of Int<\/b><b>ernational recognition of the Indian pharmacopeia Standards?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Firstly, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it would boost the export of Indian pharmaceutical products to these countries as it would remove double regulation, duplication in testing and post importation checks. Indian drug exporters would thus gain a competitive edge and trade would become more remunerative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Secondly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> importing nations would gain access to quality Indian medical products at affordable prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Thirdly,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> manufacturers in importing countries would have better scope for development of generic medicines contributing to availability of affordable medicines to their citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCabinet approves signing of MoU between India and Suriname in the field of the regulation of medicines\u201d \u00a0published in PIB on 16th August 2023. What is the News? A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission(IPC) and the Ministry of Health of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-signing-of-mou-between-india-and-suriname-in-the-field-of-the-regulation-of-medicines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cabinet approves signing of MoU between India and Suriname in the field of the regulation of medicines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-256799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702310062},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}