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The Pharmacopoeia is published by the Department of Health on behalf of the Medicines Control Agency. The MCA is the body responsible for creating the standards for medicinal products and the control and licensing of medicines for use in the UK. The 4-volume work, CD-ROM, and web site contain 2,760 monographs for substances and articles used in the practice of medicine, including all the monographs from the updated third edition of the European pharmacopoeia. It provides all the current UK pharmacopoeial standards for medicines for human use.