Drug Certification Acronyms

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