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Contributed Articles and Editorials
Below are recent contributed articles and editorials authored by USP. Click on the headline to access the full article. Please note you may be directed to an outside Web page.
Traditional Chinese Medicines and Western Regulatory Paradigms (7/2009)
Pharmaceutical Technology
USP's James Griffiths discusses regulatory options and compendial standards for Traditional Chinese Medicines.
A Quality Standard (5/2009)
Nutritional Outlook
USP's James Griffiths and Gabriel Giancaspro write about USP's new Dietary Supplements Compendium, a comprehensive resource for the supplement industry.
Pharmacy Outlook '09  (1.8MB) (1/2009)
Chain Drug Review
USP Chief Executive Officer Roger L. Williams offers his views on key issues and challenges for the drug and food industries in 2009 and beyond, including globalization, the importance quality standards, and harmonization.
The Hunt for Inferior Drugs (1/2009)
Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality
USP Drug Quality and Information Program's Souly Phanouvong and Marilyn Foster provide an overview of the program's work in developing countries to root out counterfeit and substandard drugs.
FDA's Dietary Supplement CGMPs: Standards without Standardization (543KB) (11/2008)
In this article, USP discusses the role that public quality standards, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration's current Good Manufacturing Practices, can play in ensuring the quality and consistency of dietary supplements and ingredients. This electronic copy of copyrighted material was made and delivered to you under permission from Food and Drug Law Institute. No further reproduction is permitted.
Heavy Metal Testing for Dietary Supplements (654KB) (10/2008)
Natural Products Insider
USP Vice President of General Chapters Anthony DeStefano and Senior Scientist Kahkashan Zaidi write about the problem of contamination in botanical and non-botanical dietary supplements and their ingredients with metal impurities-and USP's approach to revising its standards.
Improving Food Safety through Public Standards for Food Ingredients (128KB) (8/2008)
Food Safety Magazine
USP Chief Science Officer Darrell Abernethy and Vice President of Food & Dietary Supplement Standards Jim Griffiths explain the role that quality standards for food ingredients can play in helping to assure the safety of the food supply.
USP'S FOOD CHEMICALS CODEX: A Way to Enhance Food Safety Standards (602KB) (5/2008)
FDLI Update
USP Vice President of Food & Dietary Supplement Standards Jim Griffiths and Director of Government Affairs Ben Firschein offer an overview of current food safety efforts in the United States as well as ways to enhance food safety, including increased legal recognition of quality standards and third-party verification programs.
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