Currently, USP standards are utilized in 22,000 manufacturing facilities across 140 countries. Because of this massive scale, even small updates to these standards—such as those coordinated with the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today alerted health care professionals to a change in heparin manufacturing that is expected to decrease the potency of the common anti-clotting drug. To ensure ...

The USP public-comment process exists for a reason. Industry needs to take advantage. This article contains bonus online-exclusive material. I have been participating in activities of the US ...

Ganeden Biotech is pleased to announce that GanedenBC 30 (Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, 6086) is the first probiotic to have a monograph published in the Food Chemical Codex (FCC) from the U.S.

As the pharmaceutical industry continues to globalize, the challenges of securing complex supply chains and protecting patients from counterfeit medicines, as well as the consequences of lapses in ...

The USP 800 requires ASCs and other healthcare organizations to be compliant with a number of medication handling standards regarding receiving, transporting, storing, dispensing and disposing of them ...

A provision in a Senate health reform bill has reignited debate over the whether biological products should have to meet product quality standards established by the U.S. Pharmacopeia. A provision in ...

The U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP), the world's only nongovernmental pharmacopeia, establishes state-of-the-art standards to ensure the quality of medicines, dietary supplements, and other healthcare ...

A new study released in the journal PLOS One found that on average, drugs with a public quality standard developed by the U.S. Pharmacopeia had approximately 50% more generic manufacturers compared ...

Revisions in the standards of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) related to product dating, packaging, and temperature monitoring are discussed. USP has revised product dating specifications as they ...

The USP<800> requires ASCs and other healthcare organizations to be compliant with a number of medication handling standards such as receiving, transport, storage, dispensing, disposal and patient ...

On Nov. 1, the new U.S. Pharmacopoeia standards on sterile and nonsterile compounding will be implemented. Here’s what leaders need to know about USP 795 and USP 797: a. Nonpreserved aqueous dosage ...