All EDQM press releases
OMCLs discuss Brexit and updates to medicines’ testing methods at annual meeting - May 2018
The Annual Meeting of the Official Medicines Control Laboratories (OMCLs) took place on 14-18 May in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). It was attended by 230 participants from 38 countries, representing 65 official laboratories and including a representative of the OMCL Network, the Taiwan...
Pharmacopoeial Discussion Group (PDG) holds first videoconference meeting
The Pharmacopoeial Discussion Group (PDG), consisting of representatives from the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph.Eur.), Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP), the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) and the WHO (International Pharmacopoeia) as observer, held its first interim videoconference on Wednesday 11...
European and Indian Pharmacopoeias to cooperate further on provision of strong quality standards for medicines
The EDQM/European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) and the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) held a symposium on the quality control of medicines in the context of the pharmaceutical legislation and regulatory requirements that exist in Europe and India.
Committee on organ transplantation at Council of Europe warns against Global Kidney Exchange programmes
The Council of Europe Committee on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO), with the support of the Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO), has issued a recommendation to the Member States of the Council of Europe, as well as health authorities, hospitals and professionals not to engage in...
Live Biotherapeutic Products (LBPs): European Pharmacopoeia Commission sets unprecedented quality requirements
At its 160th Session, the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Commission achieved an important milestone in the setting of quality requirements for Live Biotherapeutic Products (LBPs) with the adoption of quality standards for LBPs for human use: a general monograph on Live biotherapeutic...
