Drug reference standard

A drug reference standard or pharmaceutical reference standard is a highly characterized material suitable to test the identity, strength, quality and purity of substances for pharmaceutical use and medicinal products.[1]

  1. ^ Culbert, Paul A.; Johnson, Bruce D. (2004). "Reference standards". Handbook of Isolation and Characterization of Impurities in Pharmaceuticals. Separation Science and Technology. Vol. 5. pp. 119–143. doi:10.1016/S0149-6395(03)80008-9. ISBN 978-0-12-044982-8.