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European Pharmacopoeia / General text/chapter |
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08 March 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
The revised limit test for arsenic (Method A, 2.4.2) was published in Supplement 9.4 of the European Pharmacopoeia and entered into force on 1 April 2018.
Upon implementation, the EDQM was made aware of a problem with the suitability test (UV-visible absorbance) of the newly introduced reagent silver diethyldithiocarbamate solution R (1110401), as many laboratories reported difficulties in...
European Pharmacopoeia / General text/chapter |
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18 February 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
The chapter on water: micro determination (2.5.32.) has been revised in the Ph. Eur. Supplement 9.8.
The revised part is reproduced here after:
The instrument qualification is carried out according to established quality system procedures, for example using a suitable certified reference material. Sodium aminosalicylate dihydrate for equipment qualification CRS may be used when proceeding by...
European Pharmacopoeia / Ph. Eur. Commission |
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13 February 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
The EDQM is renewing its call for expressions of interest to join the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) as an independent scientific expert. Professionals from national authorities (e.g. pharmacopoeial authorities, official medicines control laboratories, licensing authorities and inspectorates), the private sector (pharmaceutical or chemical industries), academia, research organisations and...
European Pharmacopoeia / Monograph |
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25 January 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
A revised version of the monograph on Oxytetracycline hydrochloride (0198) has been adopted by the European Pharmacopoeia Commission and will be published in the upcoming 10th Edition. This revised version will include impurity F as a specified impurity and will introduce a limit of maximum 1.0% for the sum of impurities D, E and F, changes seen as a temporary solution that would alleviate the...
Products and Services |
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24 January 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
The 9.8 supplement of European Pharmacopoeia is now available and will be applicable in 38 European countries as from 01 July 2019.
European Pharmacopoeia / Public enquiry |
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17 January 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Commission has launched a public consultation on how the current situation with dissolution testing in Ph. Eur. Finished Products Monographs (FPMs) could be improved.
European Pharmacopoeia / Monograph |
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15 January 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
The EDQM wishes to inform stakeholders that the monograph for Octreotide (2414) will be published in the 10th Edition of the European Pharmacopoeia and will become effective on 1 January 2020.
European Pharmacopoeia / General |
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14 January 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
Monographs and general texts on radiopharmaceutical preparations are elaborated by experts in the field. In order to guide experts on the information to be included in European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) monographs, and also to harmonise the style of the different monographs, a Guide for the elaboration of monographs on radiopharmaceuticals was published by the EDQM in 2010.
European Pharmacopoeia / Ph. Eur. Commission |
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14 January 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Commission has decided to replace the Histamine Sensitisation Test “HIST” (test in mice) with a standardised CHO cell clustering assay (in vitro cell-based test) for residual pertussis toxin testing in acellular pertussis vaccines, as of next year. The introduction of a standardised CHO cell-clustering assay for residual pertussis toxin testing is based on...
European Pharmacopoeia / Public enquiry |
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09 January 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) has launched a public consultation on a new general chapter, 2.6.32. Test for bacterial endotoxins using recombinant factor C (rFC). This is not a new topic for the Ph. Eur. which was one of the first pharmacopoeias to refer to rFC, namely in chapter 5.1.10 Guidelines for using the test for bacterial endotoxins in Supplement 8.8 (2016), allowing the...
Certification of suitability (CEP) / Procedure of certification (general) |
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08 January 2019 |
Strasbourg, France
Users of CEPs are invited to provide comments on draft monographs published in Pharmeuropa 31.1 before 31st March 2019.
European Pharmacopoeia / Animal testing |
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06 December 2018 |
Strasbourg, France
The EDQM has welcomed the recommendation of the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization (ECBS) to omit the abnormal toxicity test (also called the innocuity test) in all future WHO documents on vaccines and other biological products, and to disregard the inclusion of this test in previously published WHO Technical Report Series documents.
European Pharmacopoeia / Ph. Eur. Commission |
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30 November 2018 |
Strasbourg, France
At its 162nd Session in Strasbourg on 20-21 November 2018, the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Commission adopted 16 new texts and 128 revised texts.
All of the adopted texts help ensure that the Ph. Eur. remains up to date and in line with the latest regulatory developments and scientific state of the art; they will be effective from 1 January 2020 and will be published in 10th Edition of...
European Pharmacopoeia / General text/chapter |
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28 November 2018 |
Strasbourg, France
The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Commission decided to restructure Section 3. of the Ph. Eur. on materials and containers. A new Subsection 3.3. has been added to Section 3. in order to cover specific medical devices: containers for human blood and blood components, and materials used in their manufacture; transfusion sets and materials used in their manufacture; syringes.
Reference Standard / General |
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16 November 2018 |
Strasbourg, France
The expertise of the EDQM laboratory has recently been confirmed by an ISO 17025 accreditation for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and quantitative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (qNMR). These modern and state of the art techniques further expand the technical competence of the EDQM laboratory to characterise the official reference standards of the European Pharmacopoeia (...