Published annually by the British Pharmacopoeia Commission, the British Pharmacopeia (BP) provides the only comprehensive collection of authoritative official standards for United Kingdom (UK) pharmaceutical substances and medicinal products.
The BP includes:
- general notices (providing general information applicable to all texts)
- general monographs (apply to all dosage forms)
- specific monographs providing mandatory standards for:
- active pharmaceutical ingredients
- excipients
- formulated preparations (licensed and unlicensed products)
- herbal drugs, herbal drug products and herbal medicinal products
- materials for use in the manufacture of homoeopathic preparations
- blood-related products
- immunological products
- radiopharmaceutical preparations
- infrared reference spectra
- appendices
- supplementary chapters (providing additional guidance)
- comprehensive index
