India’s leading names in pharmaceutical excipients have joined hands to set up its first ever excipients council. The founding members of International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC) India are Ajit Singh of ACG Worldwide and Subodh Priolkar of Colorcon Asia. Indchem International, Micro Labs, Dow Chemicals, Lubrizol India, BASF India, SPI Pharma, and Merck Group are the other founder-member companies.
IPEC India is the 5th member of the IPEC Federation (www.ipec.org), the others being the Americas, Europe, Japan and China. Internationally, the IPEC Federation is the leading federation of the pharmaceutical excipients industry and has over 250 members across all affiliates. The IPEC Federation provides a unified voice which promotes the proper use of excipients in medicines as a means of improving patient treatment.
IPEC India will work actively to promote excipients safety and harmonisation of regulatory standards and pharmacopoeial monographs. It will be a source of advice and expertise on excipients and excipients-related regulations. The Council will focus its attention on the law, regulations, science and business landscape of the Indian pharma industry for excipient manufacturers and suppliers. It aims to be a proactive colleague of the Indian pharma industry associations and federations.
EP News Bureau-Mumbai