Analytical profiles, information source

T. Cairns and J. Sherma, eds.. Comprehensive Analytical Profiles of Important Pesticides, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 1992, 304 pp. From the series ModemMethods for Pesticide Analysis, provides detailed information on properties and analytical methodology for nine prominent pesticides, pyrethroids, and fumigants in food. Includes formulations and uses, chemical and physical properties, toxicity data, and tolerances on various foods and feeds. Analytical information may be given in enough detail for methods to be carried out without having to consult additional Hterature sources. 

It was my privilege to be the President of the Academy during the period when Analytical Profiles was under consideration. It is my unusual and unique honor as President of the Academy and Director of U.S.P Revision to assist in the institution and dedication of this first volume. I trust that it will serve immeasurably in providing the scientific community with an authoritative source of information on the properties of many of our important drug compounds. 

Several possibilities can be explored for obtaining the estimations of species, namely visual inspection of the experimental data set, study of pure standards as a source of information, and, of course, application of mathematical tools. Among these possibilities, if pure standards are available, spectra (or peak profiles) of the desired analytes can be introduced directly in the optimization calculation. 

Information generated within the Secretariat (such as analytical or other reports, policy papers, profiles, letters, memoranda) which contains confidential information shall be initially classified and so labelled by its originator in accordance with its sensitivity, at a level at least as high as the most sensitive classification of the source material from which it was derived or which was used in the synthesis. Where the level of sensitivity has consequently increased above that of the original source material, a higher level of classification shall be applied. 

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