CIMA it is a search tool for authorized medicines offered by the Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios del Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. The information shown will refer to the availability of medicines in pharmaciesal offices and/or services, giving details of their authorization situations, marketing statuses and possible supply problems.

The European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) is a single reference work for the quality control of medicines. The official standards it contains provide a scientific basis for quality control during the entire life cycle of a product. These standards are legally binding – as laid down in the Council of Europe Convention on the Elaboration of a European Pharmacopoeia and in EU and national pharmaceutical legislation. Ph. Eur. quality standards become mandatory on the same date in all States Parties to the convention.

Medicamentalia it is an international journalistic project by Civio on global access to thealth. It combines investigative journalism, data analysis and field reporting in several countries of the world. In this project you can also find other contents related to the health and trasparency of this sector.

USP provides access to official U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards for medicines, pharmaceutical forms, excipients, master preparations and other therapeutic products. The current version of USP-NF standards considered official by the USP are required by the FDA (Foof and Drug Administration) fpr drugs that are manufacured and marketed in the United States. It is essential for quality control, quality assurance, research and development of analysis methods. It collects monographs of excipients, active ingredients and pharmaceutical forms and preparations.