World Health Organization International Medicinal Products

Assignment of Documentation and Finished Product. Documentation and samples of finished products are sent to the evaluation unity. The evaluator excim-ines the technical file with reference to different current pharmacopoeia, i.e., the European Pharmacopoeia to which commission Tunisia is adherent as an observer, the American Pharmacopoeia, the British Pharmacopoeia and to the documents issued by the International Conference of Harmonization (ICH), to the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), to the decisions taken by the European Committee for Proprietary Medicinal Products (CPMP) and to a set of bibliographic references. 

WHO Certification scheme on the quality of pharmaceutical products moving in international commerce. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2000 (WHO/ EDM/QSM/2000.2) (http //www.who.int/medicines/organization/qsm/activities/ drugregul/certification/certifscheme.shtml). 

Research interests include maintaining NAPRALERT natural products database, abstracting ethnomedical data and researching taxonomic and nomenclatural status of organisms editing International Traditional Medicine Newsletter for the World Health Organization supervising computer operations for a plant collection project in Southeast Asia for the National Cancer Institute. 

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