WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations
Subtitle: forty-third report.
Contributors: World Health Organization.; WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations (43rd : 2008 : Geneva, Switzerland)
Series: Technical report series (World Health Organization) -- 953; Technical report series (World Health Organization) -- 953
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9789241209533; 9789241209489
Subjects: Drugs -- Standards; Pharmacopoeias; Drugs -- Quality control; Pharmaceutical Preparations -- standards -- Congresses; Pharmacopoeias as Topic -- Congresses; Reference Standards -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: The WHO Expert Committee met in Geneva from October 13-17, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Available both in print and online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: General policy; title: Joint session with the Expert Committee on Biological Standardization; title: Quality control : specifications and tests; title: Quality control; title: International Reference materials (International Chemical Reference Substances and International Infrared Reference Spectra); title: Quality control; title: National laboratories; title: Quality assurance; title: Good manufacturing practices; title: Quality Assurance; title: new approaches and risk analysis; title: Quality assurance; title: distribution and trade of pharmaceuticals; title: Quality assurance; title: stability; title: Prequalifi cation of priority essential medicines and devices; title: Prequalifi cation of quality control laboratories; title: Prequalifi cation of active pharmaceutical ingredients; title: Regulatory guidance; title: Nomenclature, terminology and databases; title: Miscellaneous; title: Summary and recommendations