Forty-fifth report of the WHO Expert Committee on specifications for pharmaceutical preparations

Overview

The WHO Expert Committee on Specifi cations for Pharmaceutical Preparations met in Geneva from 18 to 22 October 2010. Dr Hans V. Hogerzeil, Director, Department of Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies, opened the meeting, and on behalf of the Director-General of the World Health Organization, welcomed all the participants to the forty-fi fth meeting of the Expert Committee. He expressed his appreciation of the Expert Committee for its knowledge of and expertise in the work of WHO in the area of quality assurance of medicines and for its major contributions with technical expertise as well as with practical laboratory studies.