Past News

At its 165th session in November 2019, the European Pharmacopoeia Commission adopted a new version of one of its widely used general methods, chapter 2.2.2. Degree of coloration of liquids, which has been extensively revised to include the instrumental method. The revised chapter will be published in European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Supplement 10.3, available in July 2020 (implementation date: 1...

The EDQM has published the recommendations resulting from the International Symposium on Plasma Supply Management organised in co-operation with the European Commission on 29 and 30 January 2019.

In the framework of its task to develop and strengthen standards and policies to improve the health protection of consumers, the European Committee for Food Contact Materials and Articles (Partial Agreement) (CD-P-MCA), has elaborated a set of general technical provisions to be appended to an upcoming Council of Europe resolution on food contact materials and articles and specific provisions for...

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India has lifted the ban on Oxytocin reference standards imported exclusively for the purpose of test and analysis. The EDQM is therefore in a position to ship Oxytocin CRS (catalogue code O0700000) to India once again.

The new Pharmeuropa website is now online with a series of new features available to improve the user experience. As part of its efforts to enhance customer service and taking user feedback into account, the EDQM has redesigned the platform to include the following features: - single sign-on with other EDQM websites using the same authentication database, including Ph. Eur. online and PaedForm...

A recent study carried out within the framework of the Council of Europe MEDICRIME Convention has highlighted shortcomings of current legislative approaches in relation to the protection of patients against falsified medicines in Europe. The study, authored by Domenico Di Giorgio of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA), and Diana Russo, Public Prosecutor of Naples, Italy, with the support of the...

With a view to improving the correspondence between liquid chromatography column brand names (provided in the Knowledge Database) and the reagents used to describe the stationary phases for these columns, an overall review of all the monographs concerned has been launched. The names of the reagents and their definitions have also been reviewed to ensure that these stationary phases are described...