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Scheduling delegate's final decisions: ACCS – Part 2, December 2014
Scheduling medicines and poisons
23 December 2014
Glossary
| Abbreviation | Name |
|---|---|
| AAN | Australian Approved Name |
| AC | Active constituent |
| ACCC | Australian Competition and Consumer Commission |
| ADI | Acceptable daily intake |
| APVMA | Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority |
| ARfD | Acute reference dose |
| CAS | Chemical Abstract Service |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Authority |
| FAISD | First Aid Instructions and Safety Directions |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration (United States) |
| FSANZ | Food Standards Australia New Zealand |
| GHS | Globally Harmonised System for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals |
| IMAP | Inventory Multi-tiered Assessment Prioritisation |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| 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 |
| NCCTG | National Coordinating Committee on Therapeutic Goods |
| NHMRC | National Health and Medical Research Council |
| NICNAS | National Industrial Chemicals Notification & Assessment Scheme |
| NOAEL | No observed adverse effect level |
| NOEL | No observable effect level |
| NOHSC | National Occupational Health & Safety Commission |
| OCS | Office of Chemical Safety (formerly Office of Chemical Safety and Environmental Health [OCSEH]) |
| PEC | Priority existing chemical |
| PIC | Poisons Information Centre |
| SUSDP | Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons |
| SUSMP | Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WP | Working party |
| WS | Warning statement |