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the medical and drug papers and also in the Washington papers. 

 I do not think the time is quite ripe to make such a recommendation 

 but the matter is well worthy of the consideration of our Asso- 

 ciation. 



President Carter: — If there is no further discussion, the report 

 will be referred to the Board of Control. 



REPORT OF BOARD OF CONTROL ON STANDARDS 



AND TESTS. 



The work of this committee is of the highest importance and 

 has been performed in so thorough and able a manner that its 

 conclusions are incontrovertible, and the advisability of carrying 

 out its recommendations is certainly evident and requires no further 

 comment from the Board of Control. We offer these recommenda- 

 tions in" the form of the following resolutions : — 



Resolved, That the Committee on Revision of the U. S. Phar- 

 macopoeia should consist solely of acknowledged experts — one or 

 more of whom shall be a practical manufacturing chemist, and 

 one or more a druggist familiar with the drug markets of the 

 "world — who will agree to devote a sufficient portion of their time to 

 the' prompt and satisfactory performance of their duties, and that 

 'members of this committee receive adequate compensation for 

 services they render. 



Resolved, That public notice of all proposals for changes and 

 tests be given in the pharmaceutical press before adoption. 



Resolved, That standards of chemicals while excluding or reduc- 

 ing to a minimum impurities considered harmful, shall permit a 

 small given percentage of a harmless constituent where its elimi- 

 nation would add unduly to the cost. 



. Resolved, That standards for drugs of vegetable origin be based 

 only on fair average qualities and formulas for preparations be 

 adjusted to same. 



Resolved, That the legal character of the U. S. Pharmacopceia 

 demands most careful scrutiny of the language used in describing 

 both standards and tests. 



'Resolved, That the members of the Association who may be 

 ■appointed delegates to the Pharmacopoeial Convention form them- 

 selves into a committee which shall present the views of this Asso- 

 ciation to that body and pledge the members of the Association 



