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Produced annually, this CD-ROM expands and updates the contents of the print publication, the Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients. Pharmaceutical Excipients 2003 is a companion to the Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients, 4/e, the essential reference for those involved in the development, production, control, or regulation of pharmaceutical preparations. The disc employs a custom-written user interface that increases ease of use with full text searching and hot-linked contents list, index, and suppliers' directory. Users are able to collect essential data on the physical and chemical properties of excipients in a systematic and unified manner. The 2003 edition has been completely revised, and includes 40 new excipient monographs and many more excipients included as "related substances".