Report on WHO Working Group on Biological Standardization of Unfractionated Heparin (Sept 1999)

Overview

As recommended by the group of experts who attended the WHO Consultation on Biological Standardization of Unfractionated Heparin (WHO, Geneva, 17-18 June 1998) the remit of the Working Group (WG) is to seek a strategy that would lead to an agreed global method for the measurement of biological activity of unfractionated heparin, based on a single heparin unit, thus promoting global harmonization. The minutes of the WHO Consultation on Biological Standardization of Unfractionated Heparin held on the 17-18 June 1998 were approved by all members of the Working Group and adopted.