1. In performing compendial procedures, safe laboratory practices shall be followed, including precautionary measures, protective equipment, and work practices consistent with the chemicals and procedures used.
2. Before undertaking any procedure described in the compendia, the analyst should be aware of the hazards associated with the chemicals and the techniques and means of protecting against them.
3. These compendia are not designed to describe such hazards or protective measures.
compendium [kəmpen′dē·əm] pl. compendia Etymology: L, compendere, to weigh a collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs. The official compendia in the United States are the United States Pharmacopoeia, the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and their supplements. See also formulary.
compendium = USP and/or HP ???
"compendium" may be translated as 药典, although the literal meaning of compendia is “a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work”, “a publication containing a variety of works” (see http://www.onelook.com/?w=compendia+&ls=a )