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None. All drugs today are "USP"-certified. It stands for "United States Pharmacopeia." USP is a quasi-government agency that sets standards for drug purity (not effectiveness, purity). If you start looking closely, you'll see the USP label on lots of stuff, especially generics. The USP offices are located near FDA headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. The USP was founded in 1820.

The U.S. Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act designates the USP–NF as the official compendia for drugs marketed in the United States. A drug product in the U.S. market must conform to the standards in USP–NF to avoid possible charges of adulteration and misbranding. The USP–NF is also widely used by manufacturers wishing to market therapeutic products worldwide. Meeting USP–NF standards is accepted globally as assurance of high quality.

I hope this helps.

Rick the Pharmacist

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Ricky gave a pretty exhaustive answer, but it occurred to me that you might be in the specific situation of purchasing ibuprofen from a chemical company and were confused by the USP specification. Chemicals often come in different grades of purity. They might say things like '>95%', or 'HPLC grade', etc. Generally USP is the highest specification of purity. It means it is pure enough to be used in medical formulations.

There are occasional exceptions where you can make something even more pure, but it requires contamination with a toxic substance--thus, it would have a higher purity than USP, but would not meet the standards for medical use.

How pure you need your ibuprofen depends on what you are using it for. For most laboratory research purposes, you would not need USP grade stuff.

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No difference . USP means United States pharmacopia. BP means Britsh pharmacopia etc. Pharmacopia is the official,scientific,professional and legal list of generic drugs of a country.

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I would say primarily the main differences are two. Protestantism was created in the 1500's by a couple men. They believed in "sola scriptura" which is the first difference. Sola Scriptura means "personal interpretation of Scripture". Unfortunately even Luther, one of the primary inventors of protestant theology knew that sola scriptura would not truly work; as it would mean that anyone no matter their knowledge or lack of knowledge about Scripture could interpret it. He tried thus to form his own authority to compensate but as we can see today by the thousands of different protestant churches, it didn't work. Today, one minister interprets the Bible one way, opens their own church or another minister of a different protestant congregation interprets Scripture another way or follows a rule created by a larger protestant organization in what their members may believe. Thus we see, for example, American Baptists who differ from independent Baptists. Or some protestant churches that allow women as pastors and others that condemn such a practice; or some churches allowing homosexuals to marry while others condemn it. It makes for a divided church rather than a united one. In the Catholic Church there is only ONE authority. Catholics believe that Christ gave His Church only one authority to interpret Scripture guided by the Holy Spirit. That is the Church; thus there are not hundreds or thousands of remnants all following their own agenda. The second difference is in the Sacraments. Catholics, for example, believe in the Real Body and Blood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Protestantism has reduced the Sacrifice of the Mass to a symbol rather than the actual Passion of Christ. Lutherans still celebrate an invalid Mass since it's symbolic rather than real but most protestant churches have entirely omitted Holy Mass itself and only partake of a "Communion service" with grape juice and bread as symbolic on special days (like Easter). Catholics however celebrate Mass daily or can attend Mass daily and are obliged to attend Mass on Sundays and holy days. Concerning Sacraments, the protestant leaders also did away with the Sacrament of Confession, Holy Orders, Sacrament of Marriage, etc. Mainline Protestantism basically upholds only two Sacraments: baptism and "the Lord's Supper". Other Protestant sects have now led others down the wrong path by telling them that they don't even need baptism, and they believe in "once saved, always saved" which is also incorrect theology according to Christian doctrine. But the Catholic Church was the only Christian faith for many centuries. After the Reformation, many people left to follow Luther, to follow their own desires, their own interpretations, and they "broke away" from the spiritual authority of the Church which Christ instituted.