USP and Veterinary Medicine Professionals

Veterinary medicine quality has been part of USP's work for decades. The same quality standards provided in medicines for human patients are also ensured for animal patients through USP's standards. USP provides official quality standards to which drug manufacturers are required to conform by U.S. federal law.

Recommended Resources

USP–NF

Standards of identity, quality, purity, strength, packaging, and labeling for veterinary products are included in the USP–NF. Compliance with USP–NF standards helps ensure that drug product ingredients are not adulterated, are of appropriate strength, are properly packaged, and that the labeling includes active ingredients, expiration dates, and storage conditions.

Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia

The USP Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia provides comprehensive and critical information to enhance the knowledge of professionals who compound medications. The veterinary medicine section of this resource includes formulation quality monographs and clinical drug use information. Compiled under the guidance of leading experts, the Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia is a dedicated reference for pharmacy, veterinary, and other healthcare practitioners and students. The 2008–2009 edition of the USP Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia is available online and in print. Print subscribers may access supplements to the USP Pharmacists' Pharmacopeia in PDF format via a secure area of the USP Web site.

USP's Veterinary Clinical Drug Information Monographs

USP no longer develops or maintains Veterinary Clinical Drug Monographs, and those previously available on the USP Web site are now available at the website of the American Academy of Veterinary Pharmacology & Therapeutics (AAVPT) at http://www.aavpt.org/USPmonographs.shtml. This includes monographs on the use of anthelmintics, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, and compounded medications in animals.

In September 2009, USP transferred sole ownership of and full rights to these monographs to AAVPT, including the right to update and revise them in the future as it deems appropriate, and USP no longer has any responsibility, obligation or liability arising out of such monographs.