6 THE ALUMNI JOURNAL 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS AND TESTS 



OF THE UNITED STATES PHARMACOPOEIA 



AND NATIONAL FORMULARY* 



{Continued from Dec. ipop). 



To summarize, then your committee recommends : — 



That the Committee on Revision of the United States Phar- 

 macopceia shall consist solely of acknowledged experts who will 

 agree to devote a sufficient portion of their time to the prompt and 

 satisfactory performance of their duties and that the members of 

 this committee receive adequate compensation for ^he services they 

 render. 



That public notice of all proposals for changes and tests be given 

 in the pharmaceutical press before adoption. 



That standards of chemicals while excluding or reducing to a 

 minimum impurities considered harmful shall permit a small given 

 percentage of a harmless constituent when its elimination would 

 add unduly to the cost. . 



That standards for drugs of vegetable origin be based only on 

 fair average qualities and formulas for preparations be adjusted 

 to same. 



That the legal character of the United States Pharmacopoeia 

 demands the most careful scrutiny of the language used in descril^- 

 ing both standards and tests. 



That members of the Association who have been appointed 

 delegates to the Pharmacopoeial Convention form themselves into 

 a committee which shall present the views of this Association to 

 that body and pledge the members of the Association to the hearty 

 support of all measures taken to secure in the ninth revision of the 

 United States Pharmacopoeia a more perfect and reliable standard 

 of excellence than has been hitherto attainable. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Donald McKesson, 

 C. M. Kline, 

 Otto P. Amend, 

 Wm. Jay Schieflfelin, 



Thos. F. Main, 



Chairman. 



"Read at the recent convention of N. A. W. D, 



