Not that most people reading this blog will be particularly interested, but I was unable to find an easy, consolidated resource for these acronyms today so I thought I’d post a few as a possible future convenience to others. The universe of abbreviations related to this topic seems pretty small (and yet still hard to find) so I may have covered most of them here.
COS Certificate of Suitability issued by the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM)
CTD Common Technical Document OR Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
DMF Drug Master File
EDMF European Drug Master File
FDA Food and Drug Administration (USA)
GMP Good Manufacturing Practice
The following site was quite useful, but not wholly complete:
http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/medicalabbreviations.php
August 31, 2006 at 8:12 pm
apropos of pharma acronyms: (silly but cute):
“The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful
consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it
has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were
Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin. “