WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization. Seventy-fifth report

Overview

The seventy-fifth meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization was held virtually from 4 to 8 April 2022. The meeting was opened on behalf of the Director-General of WHO and the Assistant Director-General, Access to Medicines and Health Products, by Dr Clive Ondari, Director, Health Products Policy and Standards. Dr Ondari began by welcoming Committee members, meeting participants and observers, and noted that the Expert Advisory Panel on Biological Standardization, from which the Committee was drawn, had now been expanded to more than 20 members. This expansion was part of an ongoing effort by WHO to ensure that the appropriate breadth of expertise was available for the increasingly diverse range of biological medicines now being considered by the Committee, and to ensure the geographical representativeness of its advisory groups.

Annex 2, WHO TRS No. 1043. (2022): WHO manual for the preparation of reference materials for use as secondary standards in antibody testing, P.41