Updated annually, the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) is the only comprehensive collection of authoritative official standards for UK pharmaceutical substances and medicinal products.
It includes approximately 4,000 monographs which are legally enforced by the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. Where a BP monograph exists, medicinal products or active pharmaceutical ingredients sold or supplied in the UK must comply with the relevant monograph.
All monographs and requirements of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) are reproduced in the BP, making the BP a convenient and fully comprehensive set of standards that can be used across Europe and beyond.
The BP 2025 supersedes the BP 2024 and becomes legally effective on 1 January 2025. This edition incorporates new monographs from both the BP and Ph. Eur. along with a significant number of revised monographs.
All monographs and requirements of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) are reproduced in the BP, making the BP a convenient and fully comprehensive set of standards that can be used across Europe and beyond.
Visit the BP website to purchase and view single-user licence package options.
*Single-user licences are granted solely to one designated holder.
If online access for more than one online user is required, organisations can enjoy cost-effective simultaneous access to the full text of the BP 2024 edition, on workstations, laptops and other portable devices.
Online customers can select from additional add-on options such as:
The British Approved Names (BAN) 2022: Supplement No.2, includes details of names that have been issued since the publication of BAN 2022.
The British Approved Names (BAN) 2022: Supplement No.1 is a British Pharmacopoeia publication.
The British Approved Names 2022: Main Edition, consolidates the drug names published in the British Approved Names (BAN) 2017 and the International Nonproprietary Names (rINNs).