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THE first meeting was held at Geneva during October 13–17 of the Expert Committee on the Unification of Pharmacopceias of the World Health Organisation. There were present Prof. H. Baggesgaard Rasmussen (Denmark), Prof. E. Fullerton Cook (United States), Prof. I. R. Fahmy (Egypt), and Dr. C. H. Hampshire (Great Britain) ; Prof. R. Hazard (France) was prevented by illness from attending. The members were welcomed, in the name of the Executive Secretary, by Dr. R. Gautier, who said that the duties of the Committee would be to continue the work on the unification of pharmacopceias which had been begun by the Technical Commission of Pharmacopceial Experts of the League of Nations. Dr. C. H. Hampshire was elected chairman.
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Towards an International Pharmacopceia. Nature 161, 33 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161033a0
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