Primary and secondary reference materials for procedures to test the quality of medicines and foods.
At present a complex global patchwork of private and public monographs and reference materials is variously available to help ensure the quality of medicines and foods. The relationship of these monographs and reference materials, one to another, frequently is inconsistently understood and documented.This article considers the complexity of monographs and reference materials with a focus on qualifying one reference material relative to another.
USP Reference Standards Committee, US Pharmacopeial Convention, 12601 Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville, Maryland 20852-1790, USA. wh@usp.org
Walter W
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D005502:Food / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D012015:Reference Standards
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations