Establishing drug standards

• How important was establishing drug standards to the evolution of pharmacy as a profession?
• The USP is celebrating its bicentennial in 2020. How relevant is it today?
• What made you curious about this week’s content?
• As the American pharmaceutical industry matured, what has been the primary positive things that have occurred? What have been the most negative things?
• What impact has the maturation of the pharmaceutical industry had on health care in the United States?
• Are there parallels between the late 1910s and today (100 + years later)?

Additional material:

https://www.usp.org/about

https://www.usp.org/about/usp-timeline

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249017438_The_Process_of_Drug_Development_I_The_Historical_Interplay_of_Political_Economics_Research_and_Regulation

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240534302_The_Process_of_Drug_Development_II_The_Historical_Interplay_of_Therapeutics_Clinical_Research_and_Scientific_Education