{"id":4622,"date":"2014-09-19T16:48:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2024-09-21T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T10:45:26","slug":"book-of-potions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europewatchdog.info\/en\/book-of-potions\/","title":{"rendered":"The real Book of Potions"},"content":{"rendered":"

50 years of monitoring “hairy caterpillars, leeches and rat spleen”.<\/h4>\n

\"\"<\/a>Although Harry Potter and his fellow students had magical ingredients at their disposal, they were warned: Some potions, like the otherwise useful Shrinking Solution, would turn poisonous, if they were not correctly brewed!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this risk is not restricted to potions prepared in the magical world: In theory, every Aspirin bought at a European Pharmacy could kill us. In reality, however, none of us have ever given this threat a single thought. – Thanks to the Council of Europe, we never had to: The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicine <\/em><\/strong><\/a>ensures, that every legally sold medicine in Europe contains the exact amount of the substances in the exact quality it is supposed to contain. By doing so, the institution – due to its collection of standards and norms also known as Pharmacopoeia<\/em><\/strong><\/a> – makes medicines safe.<\/p>\n

So, let’s give three cheers for the dedicated staff of this extraordinary facility of the Council of Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which celebrates its 50. anniversary this year!<\/p>\n

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50 years of monitoring “hairy caterpillars, leeches and rat spleen”. Although Harry Potter and his fellow students had magical ingredients at their disposal, they were warned: Some potions, like the otherwise useful Shrinking Solution, would turn poisonous, if they were not correctly brewed! Unfortunately, this risk is not restricted to potions prepared in the magical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t