European pharmacopoeia

• Corporate Author: Council of Europe
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Strasbourg Council of Europe 2001[2003]
• Edition: Fourth Edition
• Series: European treaty series ; no. 50
• Subjects: Pharmaceutical Preparations > Pharmacopoeia; Europe
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• Item Description: Includes index; Updated with three supplements per year,implementing decisions from each of the three sessions per year of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission about one year after the meeting; "Published in accordance with the convention on the elaboration of a European Pharmacopoeia"
• Physical Description: 1 volume (xviii, 2416 pages) illustrations 30 cm. supplements
• ISBN: 9789287145871; 9287145873

The European Pharmacopoeia offers a collection of standards for medicines in Europe. Its texts are the primary standards for medicines and are legally binding in all the countries that are members of the European Pharmacopoeia Convention - national administrative or juridical authorities enforce compliance. The 4th edition comprises all the texts of the revised 3rd edition and the new texts adopted in 2000. To keep up with accelerating changes in the regulatory and technological environment, a supplement updates the 4th edition every 4 months, after each session. This edition contains: nearly 1700 monographs, including about 250 added monographs or monographs revised in 2000 covering all types of active substances used to prepare pharmaceutical products; 285 general methods, described and illustrated by figures or chromatograms; and descriptions of 1585 reagents