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DRUG REGISTRATION GUIDANCE DOCUMENT (DRGD) - BPFK

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Drug Registration Guidance Document (<strong>DRGD</strong>)2. DEFINITION2.1 DEFINITION OF ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENT (API)Any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used in themanufacture of a pharmaceutical dosage form and that, when used so,becomes an active ingredient of that pharmaceutical dosage form. Suchsubstances are intended to furnish pharmacological activity or otherdirect effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention ofdisease or to affect the structure and function of the body (WHOTechnical Report Series No.970,2012).2.2 CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENT (API)API classification can be divided into:Inorganic substances;Organic substances (isolated from materials of animal or humanorigin); andOrganic substances (synthetic or semi-synthetic or isolated fromherbal sources or micro-organisms).3. SCOPE3.1. This Guideline encompasses the APIs of new products for registration. Thisis applicable to all pharmaceutical products (excluding traditional products,veterinary products, and health supplement products) both locallymanufactured and imported.3.2. Biological active substances and immunological active substances areexcluded from the scope of this Guideline.3.3. APIs used in products for export only (FEO) are exempted from therequirement for submission of the Drug Master File (DMF) and Certificationof Suitability (CEP) in the product application.3.4. The DMF and CEP are only applicable for final APIs and not APIintermediates.3.5. Separate registration of the APIs is not a requirement for the purpose ofproduct registration. However, the required technical documentationNational Pharmaceutical Control Bureau (NPCB)First Edition, January 2013 Page | 311

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