New testing standards for steviol glycosides and caffeine announced by the United States Phamacopeial Convention (USP) will help the formulators of products containing those ingredients cut costs and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In response to a request from the FDA, the US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has revised its standards for propylene glycol and sorbitol solution, excipients widely used in prescription and ...

Yesterday, I reported the news that the US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) released new standards for labels on prescription containers dispensed by pharmacists in the US. Yesterday, I reported the ...

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 ...

On June 1, 2019, the United States Pharmacopeia (“USP”) published the final revisions to its pharmaceutical sterile compounding standards (“chapter <797>”). Chapter <797> sets forth standards for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once limited to a few naturally derived medicinal substances such as vaccines and blood products, biologics and biopharmaceuticals have come to encompass a diversity of treatments including ...