4. Standards available to manufacturers

4.1 Pharmacopoeia principles

Pharmacopoeias are regulatory works containing criteria for the purity of raw materials, methods of analysis to ensure their control, and descriptions of the therapeutic properties of medicinal plants (as well as plant, animal and chemical substances). These works are authoritative in the country in which they are written.

With a view to reducing the number of tests required to register products containing medicinal substances, a program to harmonize monographs has been initiated by representatives...