IAEA refers closely with the WHO Quality Assurance and Safety of Medicine group, which is charged with developing standards and monographs for international pharmacopoeia.

It is a well established product that first appeared in the British pharmacopoeia (under cresol) in 1914 the 1989 edition shows that it was still being used in Yugoslavia.

These health units, such as Médicos del Mundo Spain in Tuilhá estate, are usually well equipped and, in some cases, have been able to make use of the local pharmacopoeia and also provide health care for neighbouring communities.

Various technical units in the Regional Office participated in the finalization of the Arab Strategy for Health Development and the Arab Pharmacopoeia, and attended several technical meetings organized by the technical secretariat of the Council of Arab Ministers of Health.

For 1996, 784,500 has been received, including 500,000 from the Drug Abuse Prevention Centre, a Japanese non governmental organization, 160,000 from the Society of Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 100,000 from the Fonds de lutte contre le trafic des stupéfiants in Luxembourg and 24,500 from the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.