Panel recommends standardizing prescription container labeling

Monday, May 10, 2010 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

To promote the establishment of universal standards for prescription medication labels -- and to address the widespread problem of patient misinterpretation of medication instructions -- an advisory panel formed by the US Pharmacopeial Convention recently issued a set of recommendations to bring consistency to labeling on dispensed prescription packaging.

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