Membership Benefits

• Access to globally accepted industry guidance documents covering:
  
  • international good manufacturing practice principles for pharmaceutical excipients;
    
  • GMP auditing of excipient suppliers and distributors;
    
  • format and use of excipient certificates of analysis;
    
  • identification and reporting of significant changes which occur during an excipient's manufacture;
    
  • standardized excipient information to help suppliers and users better evaluate excipients for pharmaceutical use;
    
  • submission and maintainence of data for Type IV excipient drug master files;
    
  • excipient composition; and
    
  • essential elements of the excipient qualification and specification development processes.
    
• Access to audit reports of excipient supplier and distributors' practices generated by the IPEC-Americas 3rd party GMP auditing program that is managed and administered by its subsidiary company, International Pharmaceutical Excipients Auditing, Inc. (IPEA)
  
• Opportunity to have member company auditors trained to conduct excipient supplier and distributor audits based on the Joint IPEC/PQG GMP Guide for Pharmaceutical Excipients and companion Audit Guidelines
  
• Access to and ability to influence USP, PhEur and JP decisions and directives by service on compendial working groups and expert committees
  
• Access to FDA, USP, and other industry organizations through involvement with CHPA, Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) and ASTM International projects and committee service
  
• Opportunity to work with FDA to improve the content and format of the agency's inactive ingredient guide and its Type IV drug masterfile system
  
• Access to FDA, USP, ICH, European Union and WHO directives, guidance, programs, and meetings though member notices, bulletins and newsletters.
  
• Access to the members-only sections of the IPEC-Americas website to comment on IPEC draft monographs, position papers and policy statements; to register for meetings; and to purchase IPEC publications at discount prices
  
• Gain discounts on IPEC seminars and conferences

and much more.......

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