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dietary supplement ingredients

New dietary supplements
Reference Standards

More than 300 dietary supplements reference standards are
available. See the newly released botanical
reference standards.

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https://www.usp.org/dietary-supplements/reference-standards
ampules

Product-specific standards and performance standards for Biologics

Help ensure the quality and consistency of biological treatments reaching patients globally.

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https://www.usp.org/biologics/reference-standards
food reference standards

Food ingredient
reference materials

Helping verify the identity, quality and
purity of food ingredients you buy or sell.

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https://www.usp.org/foods/food-ingredient-reference-materials
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USP currently offers more than 3,500 Reference Standards—highly characterized specimens of drug substances, excipients, food ingredients, impurities, degradation products, dietary supplements, compendial reagents and performance calibrators. USP Reference Standards are specified for use in conducting official USP–NF tests and assays. USP also provides Reference Standards specified in the Food Chemicals Codex as well as authentic substances—high-quality chemical samples—as a service to analytical, clinical, pharmaceutical and research laboratories.

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