1. What is International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC) and IPEC Association (China)?

IPEC currently is a federation of four independent regional industry associations headquartered in the United States (IPEC-Americas), Europe (IPEC Europe), Japan (JPEC), and China (IPEC-China).
Creation of affiliated organizations in India and Brazil is under consideration. Each current association focuses its attention on the applicable law, regulations, science, and business practices within its region to accomplish its members¡¯ goals. They also cooperate on common excipientrelated safety and public health issues, in connection with international trade matters, and pharmacopoeial specifications. More than 300 national and multinational excipient producer, distributor and user companies are members of one or more of the IPEC regional units.
As a new member of IPEC group, IPEC-China was registered on 21st July 2008 in Hong Kong as a Non-profit organization. IPEC-China will be representing the interests of pharmaceutical excipients producers and users and distributors in China and developing a series of standards and guidelines which are good to the enhancement of pharmaceutical excipient quality and standards and safety.

2. Why IPEC-China Is Needed

IPEC China members come from pharmaceutical excipient manufactures, users and distributors, IPEC China will use international resource from other regional IPEC and base on reality of excipient management in China, assist with SFDA, ChP and other regulate and technical structure to harmonize relative guidance, thus, improve safety of excipient application and guarantee public safety. At the same time, as one of IPEC family, IPEC China will prompt communication between international and domestic excipient industrys and try to create a good environment for excipient application, quality assurance and regulatory control base on better ommunication, understanding and harmonization.

3. Mission Statement

IPEC China that develops,implements, and promotes global use of appropriate quality, safety, and functionality standards for pharmaceutical excipients and excipient delivery systems.