British Pharmacopoeia 2018

Volume I

The British Pharmacopoeia Commission has caused this British Pharmacopoeia 2018 to be prepared under regulation 317(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 and, in accordance with regulation 317(4), the Ministers have arranged for it to be published. It has been notified in draft to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EEC.

The monographs of the Ninth Edition of the European Pharmacopoeia (2016), as amended by Supplements 9.1 and 9.2, published by the Council of Europe are reproduced either in this edition of the British Pharmacopoeia or in the associated edition of the British Pharmacopoeia (Veterinary).

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First Published 2017

ISBN 978 011 3230 372

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