Technical Report Series articles

Recent articles from Technical Report Series

6. Quality control--national laboratories.(WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS)
January 1, 2009... 6.1 External Quality Assurance Assessment Scheme With a view to continuing the promotion of quality assurance in pharmaceutical quality control laboratories in WHO Member States, four test series in phase 4 of the proficiency testing scheme had taken place, with the fifth and final procedure...

5. Quality control--International Reference materials (International Chemical Reference Substances and International Infrared Reference Spectra).(WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS)
January 1, 2009... 5.1 Annual reports of the WHO Collaborating Centre The Committee noted with appreciation the work of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Chemical Reference Substances as presented in its report for 2007. It was noted that the number of International Chemical Reference Substances (ICRS)...

4. Quality control--specifications and tests.(WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS)
January 1, 2009... 4.1 The International Pharmacopoeia The Committee was pleased to note that the First Supplement to the Fourth Edition of The International Pharmacopoeia had recently been published in both book form and electronically (as a replacement for the CD-ROM of the 4th Edition and via a link on...

3. Joint session with the Expert Committee on Biological Standardization.(WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS)
January 1, 2009... During the meeting, a joint session was held with the Expert Committee on Biological Standardization (ECBS) at which a number of matters of common interest, set out below, were discussed. The Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations recommends holding a joint...

2. General policy.(WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON SPECIFICATIONS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS)
January 1, 2009... 2.1 Collaboration with international organizations and agencies 2.1.1 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria The Expert Committee was informed that the main objective of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was to allow access to and continued...