Pharmacopeial Forum (PF) is USP's journal for the
development and revision of official standards. PF alerts you to official
and proposed changes to standards in the USP NF.
PF includes the following main sections (among others):
* Interim Revision
Announcements: Standards and
revisions that have been adopted and will become
officially binding on the specified date. Often, these revisions become
official before they are published separately in the next USP NF edition or
supplement.
* In-process Revisions: Proposed revisions and new standards that USP is
considering advancing to official status, with the tentative earliest date
on which the revisions might become official.
* Policies and Announcements: General scientific and policy issues
affecting USP NF standards and processes; summaries of meetings of USP
volunteer scientific experts; guidelines and deadlines for sending comments
and
suggestions to USP on proposed revisions.
* Staff and Committees: Names and contact information for USP scientific
staff liaisons for various specialty areas; names of Expert Committees of
volunteer scientific experts who guide USP's standards development and
revision process.
* Other Information: Latest United States Adopted Names and International
Nonproprietary Names for drugs; the current USP Reference Standards Catalog;
brand names of chromatographic reagents based on current PF proposals; and
a cumulative PF content index for the year to date.
so available as online version.