Role and function of the "Compendium Medicamentorum".

The increase of the co-operation among countries of Council for Mutual Economic Aid (CMEA = COMECON) in the area of drug production has forced these countries to elaborate a collection of unified quality specifications and test procedures for pharmaceutical preparations: the Compendium Medicamentorum (CM). The CM is in hands of the Expert Panel on Drug Standardization, the president of which is prof. J. Richter, head of the Institute for Drugs and Drug Control of the GDR, Berlin. It is issued in Akademie-Verlag Berlin in russian and german. The aim of the CM is to enable the multilateral contact among CMEA countries, above all on the basis of the specialization of drug production.