ABBREVIATIONS FREQUENTLY
USED IN PHARMACEUTICALS
N.B: Probably Most used terms may green color
AHU:
Air Handling Unit
AQL: Acceptable
Quality Level
API: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
GLP: Good
Laboratories Practice
ICH: International Conference on Harmonization
ISO: International Standard Organization/ International Organization
for Standardization
GMP: Good Manufacturing Practice
cGMP:
Current Good Manufacturing Practice
TQM:
Total Quality Management
WHO: World Health Organization
WHA: World Health Assembly
BMR: Batch Manufacturing Records
BPR: Batch Packaging Records
FDA:
Food and Drug Administration
FD
& C:
Food, Drug and Cosmetics
IPC: In-Process Control/
Check
CBA: Collective
Bargaining Agent
MCA:
Medicines Control Agency (Britain
MCC:
Medicine Control Council (Africa )
ICRS: International
Chemical Reference Substances
IRO: Industrial
Relations Ordinance
EEC: European Commission;
ISO/TC:
International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee
PDCA: Plan, Do, Check, Act
PIC: Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention
PIC/S: Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme
DQ: Design
Qualification
IQ: Installation
Qualification
OQ: Operational
Qualification
PQ: Performance
Qualification
ASL: Approved
Suppliers’ List
VMP: Validation Master
Plan
TRS: Technical Report Series
CRS: Chemical
Reference Substances
HEPA: High
Efficiency Particulate Air
SAL: Sterility
Assurance Level
IU: International
Unit
IUPAC: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
ANOVA: Analysis of
Variance
HEPA: High Efficiency
Particulate Air
HPLC: High Performance Liquid Chromatography
ICDRA: International
Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities
TLC: Thin Layer
Chromatography
GC: Gas
Chromatography
PVC: Poly Vinyl
Chloride
PVDC: Poly Vinyledene Chloride
ROPP: Rolled on Pilfer Proof
RCC: Reinforced
concrete
FTIR: Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy
LAL: Limulus Amebocyte Lysate
RO: Reverse Osmosis
WFI: Water for Injection
FIFO: First-in-first-Out
FEFO: First Expired, First Out
EEFO: Earliest Expiry, First Out
HACCP: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point
FIP: International
Pharmaceutical Federation
IFPMA: International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations
IPEC: International
Pharmaceutical Excipients
Council
UNICEF: United Nations Children’s Fund
WTO: World
Trade Organization
PDG: Pharmacopoeial
Discussion Group
GTDP: Good trade and distribution practice
DAR: Drug
Administration Registration
DMF: Drug
Master File
DRA: Drug Regulatory Authority
EOI: Expression of
Interest
ILO: International Labor Organization
NPS: Nonpareil seed
EDM: Essential Drugs and Medicines
BAN: British
Approved Names
USAN: United States
GSP: Good storage practice
MOA: Method of analysis
COA: Certificate of analysis
UNAIDS: United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNFPA: United Nations Population Fund
ASEAN: Association of South Asian Nations
TPN: Total Parenteral Nutrition
BFS: Blow, Fill, Seal Technique (Ampule Filling)
LDPE: Low Density Polyethylene
HDPE: High Density Polyethylene
PP: Polypropylene
HVAC: Heat,
Ventilation and Air conditioning
PPIC: Production Planning &
Inventory Control
PPI: Proton Pump Inhibitor
o. d.: Once daily
b. i. d.: Twice daily
TOC: Total Organic Carbon
t. i. d.: Thrice daily
q. i. d.: Four times daily
PMN: Phenylmercuric Nitrate
PMA: Phenylmercuric Acetate
BAC: Benzalkonium Chloride
PVDC: Polyvinylidene Chloride
NE: Not Established
PET: Polyethylene Terephthalate
FAO: Food and Agriculture
Organization
EEC: European Commission
USAID: U.S.
ICDDRB: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research , Bangladesh
IBC: Intermediate
Bulk Container
AAS:
Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
ICP: Inductively
Coupled Spectroscopy
IC:
Ion Chromatography
TGA:
Therapeutic Goods Agency (Australia)
MHRA:
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency (UK)
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