USP reference standards

The United States Pharmacopeia (USP, Rockville, MD) has expanded its Drug Research and Testing Laboratory into two operations: the Research and Development Laboratory (RDL), which supports compendial standards for the USP committee of revision, and the Reference Standards Laboratory (RSL), which supports the reference standards needs of industry. The RDL will focus on evaluating and developing analytical methods, pharmaceutics issues such as dissolution and drug release, extemporaneous compounding, botanicals, biotechnology, and cell culture. The RSL will focus on reference standard evaluation and stability. USP's Reference Standards Operation procures candidate reference standard bulk …