Analytical Chemistry in a GMP Environment: A Practical Guide. James M. Miller and Jonathan B. Crowther, eds. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000, 509 pp., $115.00, hardcover. ISBN 0-471-31431-5.

I like this book. It grew out of “a need for more and better training of pharmaceutical laboratory analysts, as perceived by the Food and Drug Administration”. In the spring of 1996, Johnson & Johnson began the development of a two-week, in-house training course to meet this need. That course became the basis for this book.The 15 chapters are contributed by 21 authors, 17 from industry (Janssen is well represented with 10 authors), …