The non-profit U.S. Pharmacopeia, an industry-backed board, created voluntary standards for compounding pharmacies to follow.

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The U.S. Pharmacopeia is a nonprofit group that has set standards for many popular supplements.

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It also plans to buy libraries of compounds from companies such as DuPont's CombiChem, Pharmacopeia and ArQule.

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We took a serious look at the problem in February, using data provided by U.S. Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting health care safety (see " Lethal Confusion").

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Another example he gives: When Pharmacopeia (nasdaq: PCOP - news - people ), a biotechnology company, tried to buy EOS , a privately held firm, Orbimed Advisors, Pharmacopeia's biggest shareholder, launched a vocal critique that sunk the deal.

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