Welcome to USP—NF/PF Online Help

Welcome to the help guide for the online version of the United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary / Pharmacopeial Forum (USP—NF/PF). The USP—NF/PF Online contains the pharmacopeial standards for drugs, dietary supplements, and excipients as well as procedures for tests, assays, analytical methods, and more.

The USP—NF/PF Online is built for today’s standard users and managers; providing a single access point for all USP—NF/PF standards and supporting materials. The redesigned user experience accelerates access to critical information through enhanced navigation, search capabilities, and customization.

What's New

USP has launched an updated version of the USP-NF Online that incorporates the full content from the USP-NF Online and the Pharmacopeial Forums (PF) in one unified platform. These changes improve your overall user experience making it simpler to view and track changes between USP-NF documents. All the current content and functionality continues to be available, along with enhancements, including:

  • Ability to view USP-NF and PF documents in the same interface and document timeline.

  • Improved Search functionality, including the ability to limit searches by Title or Category.

  • Ability to save frequently used searches.

  • Improved document status indicators, including the Commenting status for PF documents.

  • Simplified user interface (UI) to improve the user experience.

  • New commenting form with the ability to save comments to draft and print comments.

Key Features of USP—NF/PF Online

The USP—NF/PF Online platform has the following benefits:

  • A comprehensive search tool that operates like search tools on many popular websites helps you find exactly what you need. Improved global search functionality – easily search specific words, phrases, documents, or sections with color-coded search results.

  • Simplified navigation of all content with annotations to explain the content of different sections, thereby simplifying access for new or infrequent users.

  • The ability to save personalized bookmarks and easily return to any recently viewed page through the “Viewing Activity” function.

  • The ability to receive notifications of upcoming changes to specific documents to always know when key documents and tests are updated.

  • The ability to search across multiple editions of the USP—NF/PF Online.

  • Toggle feature to view USP—NF/PF Online in Spanish or English for users who have subscriptions for both languages.

This guide is designed to enhance your usage of USP—NF/PF through the use of the following features:

 

Important: Please visit What's New section to review the latest features and enhancements to the USP—NF/PF Online.

 

Before you begin working with the USP—NF/PF application, take a few moments to read about the navigation and many other features available to you in the Getting Started section. You also have access to live on-boarding tutorials, instructional videos, and on-screen help within the application.

Note: If you have any questions about the scientific content of USP—NF/PF Online publication, please email our scientific staff or visit our USP support page.

 

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