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Food Ingredient Resources from USP

To help you ensure the development, manufacture, and quality control of food ingredient products, USP offers a complete range of essential standards and valuable resources.

Documentary Standards

Food Chemicals Codex, Sixth Edition, Print—The new sixth edition of the Food Chemicals Codex (FCC)—see Food Chemicals Codex—An Overview—has been revised and updated for 2008! It features internationally recognized monograph standards and tests for the purity and quality of food ingredients. Redesigned for ease of use, infrared spectra are now included with their respective monographs and flavor chemicals appear in the monograph section. New 2-year publication cycle. Print subscription includes hardcover main edition (available now) and softcover supplement (publishes spring 2009). More Info Buy Now

Food Chemicals Codex, Sixth Edition, Online—The FCC, Sixth Edition, is also available in a new online format. The online format provides the same quality content as print along with easy to use search, copy-paste, and bookmarking options that help you quickly find the information you frequently use and need. Offered in a 2-year subscription, includes all FCC information published during subscription period. More Info Buy Now

Learn how you can help shape future FCC standards—see FCC Forum in Web-based Information below.

USP Dietary Supplements Compendium—Developed for manufacturers and suppliers, laboratories, and regulators, the USP DSC contains DSHEA-recognized monographs for dietary supplements, dietary ingredients, and for other components of dietary supplements found in the U.S. market. It also provides access to additional useful information, such as content to aid in testing and analytical procedures. More Info Buy Now

FCC Education

FCC Webinar Series—Four on–demand offerings based upon USP's webinar series are available now!. Click the links below to register.

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Reference Standards

Reference Standards for FCC—USP offers a wide variety of highly characterized chemical specimens for use in FCC compendial tests and procedures. They can save valuable time and money spent on developing in-house standards. USP Reference Standards are quality-tested and used in more than 130 countries.

Web-based Information

FCC Forum—FREE online forum where proposed FCC revisions are first published for public review. FCC Forum gives you the opportunity to review and comment as standards are developed and revised. FCC Forum

FCC Notices—Important notices, posted online, regarding compendial standards, upcoming revisions, timelines, and more. FCC Notices

FCC e-newsletter—The latest USP news via email on food ingredient standards. Select contents area available in the FCC Resources section. Sign up to Receive

Frequently Asked Questions—Answers to common queries about the Food Chemicals Codex, Sixth Edition, and how it's revised. FCC FAQs