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WHO Technical Report Series, No. 981 - World Health Organization

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<strong>WHO</strong> Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations Forty-seventh report<br />

early 2012, the Committee encouraged further collaboration between the world's<br />

pharmacopoeias leading to harmonization of their work.<br />

A full list of the decisions and recommendations made by the Expert<br />

Committee at its forty-seventh meeting is given below.<br />

The following new guidelines were adopted and recommended for use:<br />

■■<br />

Release procedure for International Chemical Reference Substances<br />

(Annex 1)<br />

■■<br />

<strong>WHO</strong> guidelines on quality risk management (Annex 2)<br />

■■<br />

<strong>WHO</strong> guidelines on variations to a prequalified product (Annex 3)<br />

■■<br />

Collaborative procedure between the <strong>World</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Organization</strong><br />

Prequalification of Medicines Programme and national medicines<br />

regulatory authorities in the assessment and accelerated national<br />

registration of <strong>WHO</strong>-prequalified pharmaceutical products<br />

(Annex 4)<br />

For inclusion in The International Pharmacopoeia<br />

The following monographs were adopted:<br />

■■<br />

for antiretroviral medicines<br />

<strong>WHO</strong> <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>Series</strong>, <strong>No</strong>. <strong>981</strong>, 2013<br />

■■<br />

■■<br />

––<br />

abacavir sulfate<br />

––<br />

abacavir oral solution<br />

––<br />

nevirapine<br />

––<br />

nevirapine oral suspension<br />

––<br />

nevirapine tablets<br />

––<br />

tenofovir disoproxil fumarate<br />

for antimalarial medicines<br />

––<br />

artesunate<br />

––<br />

artesunate tablets<br />

––<br />

artesunate for injection<br />

––<br />

artemisinin<br />

––<br />

mefloquine hydrochloride<br />

for antituberculosis medicines<br />

––<br />

cycloserine<br />

––<br />

cycloserine capsules<br />

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