Key Issues

USP strives to keep stakeholders and the community at large aware of standards-setting activities related to timely issues, including those necessitated by worldwide events and those related to ongoing efforts to update standards to meet changing needs. The following pages feature comprehensive information about key issues:

• USP Medicare Model Guidelines
• Veterinary Drugs
• Compounding
• Heparin
• USP–NF General Chapter <17> Prescription Container Labeling
• Monograph Modernization
• Elemental Impurities
• Standards for Radioactive Articles
• Over-the-Counter Medicines Standards

Key Issues Archive

• Glycerin
• Melamine Contamination
• Excipients Linked to DEG & EG Adulteration