The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare issued a notification on March 29, 2018, forrevise the Standards for Japanese PharmaceuticalExcipients 2018 (Notification No. 0329-1 of the Crude Drug Administration). In this Pharmaceutical Excipients Specification 2018, the specifications for the five newly reviewed products were listed, partially revised for the 25 already listed products, and the four ingredients of the eight products were combined, resulting in 489 listed products. This paper presents the results of HPLC analyses of "purified Stevia extract" among the five newly listed products.