NEW! USP: Setting Ingredient Standards
An article published in the Wall Street Journal described the United States Pharmacopeial Convention Inc. (USP) as an “obscure group.”1 Among health care professionals and the pharmaceutical and personal care industries, however, USP is anything but obscure. USP is a non-governmental, non-profit pharmacopeia that has been setting standards for drugs and other articles for nearly 185 years. Although some believe that it is exclusively focused on the pharmaceutical industry, USP has a prominent role in setting standards in the cosmetic and personal care industry as well. The purpose of this article is to examine the role of USP in the cosmetics and personal care industry.
Three major aspects of USP directly affect the cosmetics and personal care industry:
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