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The current edition of the British Pharmacopoeia comprises six volumes which contain nearly 3,000 monographs for drug substances, excipients and formulated preparation, together with supporting General Notices, Appendices (test methods, reagents etc.) and Reference Spectra used in the practice of medicine, all comprehensively indexed and cross-referenced for easy reference. Items used exclusively in veterinary medicine in the UK are included in the BP (Veterinary).

Volumes I and II
  • Medicinal Substances
Volume III
  • Formulated Preparations
  • Blood related Preparations
  • Immunological Products
  • Radiopharmaceutical Preparations
  • Surgical Materials
  • Homeopathic Preparations
Volume IV
  • Appendices
  • Infrared Reference Spectra
  • Index
Volume V
  • British Pharmacopoeia (Veterinary)
Volume VI
(CD-ROM version)
  • British Pharmacopoeia
  • British Pharmacopoeia (Veterinary)
  • British Approved Names

The BP is available as a printed volume and electronically in both on-line and CD-ROM versions, the electronic products use sophisticated search techniques to locate information quickly. For example, pharmacists referring to a monograph can immediately link to other related substances and appendices referenced in the content by using 130,000+ hypertext links within the text.

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