Batch 2 of the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Erythropoietin for physicochemical tests Chemical Reference Substance (CRS) was adopted by the Ph. Eur. Commission in November 2023. This CRS is used as a reference for capillary zone electrophoresis, peptide mapping, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting as per the corresponding Ph. Eur. monograph (1316).

An article detailing the establishment study (BSP159), run under the aegis of the EDQM Biological Standardisation Programme, has been published in the online journal Pharmeuropa Bio & Scientific Notes.

The CRS is available from the EDQM under catalogue number Y0001725.

Pharmeuropa Bio & Scientific Notes is a journal published by the EDQM and is included in MEDLINE.