In the U.S. and around the world, quality standards developed by the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) support the availability of safe, quality medicines, regulatory efficiencies, and a strong global medicine supply chain.

The field of biologics is vast and growing, with tremendous potential to improve patients’ lives and public health.

USP has launched the newest tool in our suite of solutions to address the evolving nitrosamines crisis: the Nitrosamines Analytical Hub, a public, web-based repository of downloadable analytical procedures to test for nitrosamine impurities and related substances in pharmaceuticals.

Substandard medicines are a huge public health threat. Proactively evaluating drug products using a relative risk assessment is important to reduce the prevalence of substandard antibiotics.