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Our Vision

USP's vision is to be a leader in promoting the public health by creating a unique knowledge base—consisting of quality standards and information on proper use—for medicines and related products and practices. USP will ensure that people throughout the world have access to this knowledge base.

2005–2010: A Broad Framework

During the 5-year period of 2005–2010, USP resolves to assure good pharmaceutical care for all through four major areas of activity:

  • National product quality: USP will continue to remain an independent, unbiased source of information and materials to serve pharmaceutical manufacturers, government agencies, compounding professionals, patients, and consumers. The information and materials include a growing range of public monographs in the USP–NF, official USP Reference Standards, verification programs, and education courses. All of these products will enable independent and third-party testing of drugs, biologics, dietary supplements, and other products used to maintain health and prevent disease, to assure their quality and integrity at all stages before use—during manufacture, at the time of release, and throughout the shelf-life of the products.
  • International product quality: USP will work with various stakeholders and constituencies to assure quality therapeutic products and their proper use worldwide. USP will especially focus on helping to eliminate substandard and poor quality drugs which can increase antimicrobial resistance and damage health in areas of the world where regulatory resources are restrained.
  • Healthcare delivery and patient safety: USP will use data from its national Internet-based reporting program, MEDMARX®, to provide the healthcare community with reports, alerts, and information for research into health-system errors and interventions to advance patient safety.
  • Drug information: USP will investigate and evaluate novel approaches to provide accurate, unbiased, and timely drug information at the point of use to enhance practitioner and patient understanding about the value and proper use of a drug or related product.

2005–2010: Specific Areas of Focus

USP's volunteer Convention members meet once every 5 years to discuss, vote upon, and adopt a set of resolutions that further USP's mission by defining specific focus areas for the next 5-year period. The USP Convention adopted thirteen resolutions for 2005–2010 in March 2005.