Standards play an important role in the global medicines supply chain, helping governments and manufacturers increase the availability of safe, quality medicines, as well as building patient and health provider trust. In fact, quality standards are a big reason why we in the U.S. can get a prescription filled at our neighborhood pharmacy and trust that the medicine we receive will be safe and work as it should.
USP’s success in its mission to improve global public health through creation of standards and related programs depends in large part on the work of volunteers.
Consumers in the United States often have access to a lot of information about the products they use and consume. Many products include information about the country of origin.
COVID-19 is transforming our ways of thinking about the development, manufacture and delivery of critical medicines to patients around the world.
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