pharmacopoeial
pharmacopeial AmE

Pharmacopoeial standards are publicly available and legally enforceable standards of quality for medicinal products and their constituents.

This includes explanation of the basis of pharmacopoeial specifications and information on the development of monographs including guidance to manufacturers.

To evolve Pharmacopoeial standards for Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy drugs.

The development of pharmacopoeial standards receives input from relevant industries, hospitals, academia, professional bodies and governmental sources, both within and outside the UK.

Detailed information and guidance on various aspects of current pharmacopoeial policy and practice is provided in Supplementary Chapters of the BP.

Such branches of pharmacognosy are still of fundamental importance, particularly for pharmacopoeial identification and quality control purposes, but rapid development in other areas has enormously expanded the subject.

Pharmacopoeial standards are compliance requirements; that is, they provide the means for an independent judgment as to the overall quality of an article and apply throughout the shelf-life of a product.

The wood-tar creosote is commonly called "Nikkyoku creosote" (i.e. Japanese pharmacopoeial creosote) as a means to distinguish from potentially harmful industrial creosote.

If s/he uses the same article under its pharmacopoeial name when the patented article is prescribed s/he lays oneself open to prosecution by the patentee for infringement of patent rights.

Development of new pharmacopoeial monographs - the laboratory undertakes the development and validation of qualitative and quantitative test methods for new BP monograph specifications and refines and revalidates test methods for existing BP monographs.

It is the most common titrimetric procedure used in pharmacopoeial assays and serves a double purpose: it is suitable for the titration of very weak acids and very weak bases, and it provides a solvent in which organic compounds are soluble.

Hence the inutility of the pharmacopeial tinctura podophylli, which cannot be diluted before administration.

USP - united states pharmacopeial convention, inc.