ISO Identification of Medicinal Products (IDMP) and its implication for herbals

Abstract

A series of standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) set out the elements required for the identification of medicinal products (IDMP), including one for substances 1,2 .

A review of issues of nomenclature and taxonomy of Hypericum perforatum L. and Kew's Medicinal Plant Names Services

“…To overcome the challenge of information retrieval posed by the multiple names in use for medicinal plants and to facilitate unambiguous communication, Kew developed the MPNS Resource. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the EMA and other health regulators internationally have recently developed and adopted within their regulatory frameworks the International Standardisation Organisation's ‘Identification of Medicinal Products’ (IDMP) . This provides a mechanism by which alternative terms used in different countries for the same product and the substances that it contains are linked by reference to unique identifiers.…”

“…The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the EMA and other health regulators internationally have recently developed and adopted within their regulatory frameworks the International Standardisation Organisation's 'Identification of Medicinal Products' (IDMP). [60] This provides a mechanism by which alternative terms used in different countries for the same product and the substances that it contains are linked by reference to unique identifiers. IDMP includes herbal substances, for which the scientific name of the plant and the part of the plant to be used are essential to the definition.…”