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Scheduling delegate's final decisions: ACCS, March 2015
Scheduling medicines and poisons
27 March 2015
Glossary
Abbreviation | Name |
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ACCC | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission |
ACCS | Advisory Committee on Chemicals Scheduling |
ACMS | Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling |
APVMA | Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority |
CAS | Chemical Abstract Service |
CIR | Cosmetic Ingredient Review |
CPS | Committee on Poisons Schedules |
DPSSC | Drugs and Poisons Scheduling Sub-Committee |
EPA | Environmental Protection Authority |
FDA | Food and Drug Administration (United States) |
IMAP | Inventory Multi-tiered Assessment and Prioritisation |
LC50 | The concentration of a substance that produces death in 50 per cent of a population of experimental organisms. Usually expressed as mg per litre (mg/L) as a concentration in air. |
LD50 | The concentration of a substance that produces death in 50 per cent of a population of experimental organisms. Usually expressed as milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg) of body weight. |
LOAEL | Lowest observed adverse effect level |
LOEL | Lowest observed effect level |
MOE | Margins Of Exposure |
NCCTG | National Coordinating Committee on Therapeutic Goods |
NDPSC | National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee |
NICNAS | National Industrial Chemicals Notification & Assessment Scheme |
NOAEL | No observed adverse effect level |
NOEL | No observable effect level |
OCS | Office of Chemical Safety |
PEC | Priority existing chemical |
PSC | Poisons Schedule (Standing) Committee |
SPF | Scheduling Policy Framework for Medicines and Chemicals [https://www.tga.gov.au/publication/ahmac-scheduling-policy-framework-medicines-and-chemicals] |
SUSMP | Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons |
TGA | Therapeutic Goods Administration |