Unstandard Standards

by Michael Anisfeld

 

The need for a single worldwide accepted pharmacopoeia (compendium of drug quality standards) has been recognised for about 150 years when work first started in 1874 on developing the International Pharmacopoeia (IP). This harmonization work, started over a century ago, ultimately resulted in the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) publication “The International Pharmacopoeia”...

 

http://eipg.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/EIP20-Mar14-P4.pdf