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Article: USP's Work Plan and New Revision Approaches
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- Pharmaceutical Technology
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Advanstar Communications, Inc. Oct 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Following its 2005 Convention, USP is adopting new approaches to develop monographs and products and to carry out the organization's ambitious work plans.
The United States Pharmacopeia's (USP) mission statement notes that USP "promotes the public health and benefits practitioners and patients by disseminating authoritative standards and information developed by its volunteers for medicines, other health care technologies, and related practices used to maintain and improve health and promote optimal health care" ( 1 ). Since the publication of the first United States Pharmacopeia (USP) in 1820, one of USP's abiding strategies for advancing this mission has been the continuous revision and ...