NEW ISO Standard for registering medicinal products

About Identification of Medicinal Products Standard (IDMP)

“Identification of Medicinal Products” (IDMP) is a new global data standard that has been published by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and has already been adopted by the US, European and Japanese Health Regulators and promoted by the WHO Uppsala Monitoring Centre (WHO UMC). The IDMP covers all medicinal products derived from plants but doesn’t apply directly to plant food supplements.

The IDMP standard provides harmonised data formats on herbal medicine. It is aimed at improving: (1) the quality of data which will enable regulators to check plant names used to register new products, and (2) the communication between industry and regulators about controlled substances and whether the composition of each medicinal product contains plants.

To go further

Read here the article from the Kew’s Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS-UK) on the key aims of the Identification of Medicinal Products Standard and how the standard will ensure better consistency in the herbal medicinal business.  

Click here to return to the News section