Dear friends and readers, I hope you would have enjoyed reading our previous issue. Once again, I am delighted to bring to you the November 2019 a special edition of Microbioz India magazine for distribution in CPHI and P-mec India in the month of November 2019, supported by the cover story entitled “Pharmaceutical quality control: the reference standards labyrinth” authored by Martina Christiane Kotthaus,Ph.D, worked as Site Director at LGC GmbH in Luckenwalde, Germany. LGC, a global leader in the extended life sciences sector,with a comprehensive range of reference materials, proficiency testing schemes and research and measurement services, launched their latest white paper “Pharmaceutical quality control: the reference standards labyrinth”, by Dr.Martina Kotthaus, describing the different types of reference standards used by the pharmaceutical industry.