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“Here is the news” announces LGC Promochem

Date: 14 March 2005

Ref: LGC/140305/SM

Newsletters from LGC Promochem, Europe’s leading supplier of certified reference materials, keep the pharmaceutical industry informed.

How can analysts in the pharmaceutical sector keep up to date with the ever increasing range of reference substances and impurity standards? Subscribers to LGC Promochem’s Pharmaceutical reference substances and impurities catalogue have no such worry: they receive regular newsletters listing new reference substances and standards from the pharmacopoeias and from Mikromol, the leading supplier of impurity standards.

If you are not already a subscriber to LGC Promochem’s Pharmaceutical Reference Substances newsletter, now is a good time to sign up. All new subscriptions received by 30 April 2005 will be rewarded with a free USB memory stick. Just the thing to store the electronic newsletter for portable instant access. The newsletters also contain up-to-the-minute news on alterations and withdrawals of standards as well as price information and notices of events organized by LGC Promochem. The regular newsletters are also available in a pdf format, and subscribers are invited to send an email with their full address stating the subject "Pharmaceutical reference substances newsletter" to pharma-news@lgcpromochem.com in order to request this electronic version which is normally distributed two weeks earlier than the printed version.

LGC Promochem’s current Pharmaceutical reference substances and impurities catalogue has a massively expanded product range including primary pharmaceutical standards from the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), European Pharmacopoeia (EP) and British Pharmacopoeia (BP) as well as secondary impurity standards with detailed certificates of analysis, physical standards and high purity solvents. New products include ready-to-use EP reagents from Reagecon, and over 1700 impurity standards from Mikromol that are mentioned in the EP and USP and by the FDA when requesting evidence of an impurity for official approval.

The catalogue is a veritable bible for the pharmaceutical industry and contains all the reference materials that the industry needs. LGC Promochem ensures that the information provided in compendial articles is based on the 'official' pharmacopoeial lists and is regularly and meticulously updated via the newsletters.

As the leading reference materials supplier in Europe, LGC Promochem offers the widest range of certified pharmaceutical chemical reference substances and pharmaceutical impurities available from a single source. They are supplied by the world’s leading manufacturers and from LGC’s in-house production facilities, ensuring that they meet the exacting needs of our customers.

LGC Promochem’s network of offices across Europe and India and experience in reference materials distribution means the company can provide faster delivery, local technical support and assistance with import requirements.

For a copy of the 2004-05 Pharmaceutical reference substances and impurities catalogue or further information on the newsletters please contact LGC Promochem: Tel: +44 (0)20 8943 8480, Fax: +44 (0)20 8943 7554 and Email:uksales@lgcpromochem.com

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