The Pharmacopoeia is a legal document of standards for the quality of drugs and substances included therein (under Drugs and Cosmetics Act). There are national and international pharmacopoeias, like the EU and the US pharmacopoeias. All the pharmacopoeias were issued under the authority of government, and their instructions have the force of law in their respective territories, except that of the united States, which was prepared by commissioners appointed by medical and pharmaceutical societies and has no other authority, although generally accepted as the national textbook. The rapid increase in medical and pharmaceutical knowledge renders necessary frequent new editions of the national pharmacopoeias, the office of which is to furnish definite formulae for preparations that have already come into extensive use in medical practice, so as to ensure uniformity of strength, and to give the characters and tests by which their purity and potency may be determined.
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