David Porter, Ph.D. is a Pharma Consultant with Vectech Pharmaceutical Consultants,Inc.He has extensive experience pertaining to compendial affairs and their relationship to the FDA and is experienced in the development of SOPs for quality systems.He has also performed numerous external and internal audits to determine compliance.While at the United States Pharmacopeia (USP),he served as a Scientist,Senior Scientist, Associate Director and Direc-tor,all within the area of general chapters.His particular concentration while at USP pertained to general chapters pertaining to microbiology and biotechnology.He is now a member of the USP Microbiology and Sterility Assurance Expert Committee.His Ph.D.is in Zoology from the University of California at Berkeley.He can be reached at 419-732-6971;dporter@vectech.com.