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FDA/CVM-Related Acronyms and Abbreviations

  FDA Acronyms and Abbreviations Page

356V

Form for New Animal Drug Application (NADA)

406B

Section of the FDA Modernization Act dealing with getting
feedback from our stakeholders

483

510(k)

Form on Inspection Report for Inspectional Observations

Medical Device Premarket Notification

1932

Form for Veterinary Adverse Drug Reaction, Lack of Effectiveness,
Product Defect Report - mandatory

1932a

Form for Veterinary Adverse Drug Reaction, Lack of Effectiveness,
Product Defect Report - voluntary

2301

Form for Transmittal of Periodic Reports and
Promotional Material for New Animal Drugs

AAALAC

AAAP

AABP

AADA

AAEP

AAFCO

AAHA

AALAS

AASP

AASRP

AAVLD

AAVMC

ACLAD

ACLAM

ACS

ADAA

ADE/ADER

ADI

ADR

ADSA

AF

AFDO

AFIA

AHI

AIP

ALJ

AMDUCA

AMI

AMPI

AMS

ANADA

ANDA

Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care

American Association of Avian Pathologists

American Association of Bovine Practitioners

Abbreviated Antibiotic Drug Application

American Association of Equine Practitioners

Association of American Feed Control Officials

American Animal Hospital Association

American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

American Association of Swine Practitioners

American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners

American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians

Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges

American Committee on Laboratory Animal Diseases

American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine

American Chemical Society

Animal Drug Availability Act

Adverse Drug Experience/Adverse Drug Experience Report

Acceptable Daily Intake

Adverse Drug Reaction

American Dairy Science Association

Administrative File

Association of Food and Drug Officials

American Feed Industry Association

Animal Health Institute

Applications Integrity Policy or Abbreviated Inspection Program

Administrative Law Judge

Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act

American Meat Institute

Associated Milk Producers, Inc.

Agricultural Marketing Service (USDA)

Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application

Abbreviated New Drug Application

ANPR

AO

AOAC

APA

APHIS

ARS

ASAS

ASIA

ASLAP

ATF

AUSA

AVA

AVDA

AVMA

AWOL

BGH

BIG

BIMO

BSE

BST

CANDA

CAAT

CAST

CBER

CC

CC/RVDF

CDC

CDER

CDRH

CFA

CFN

CFR

CFSAN

cGMP

COB

COBTA

CODEX

COI

CP

CPG

CPSC

CR

CRADA

CSI

CSO

CSPI

CSREES

CTC

CU

CVM

Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Administrative Officer

Association of Official Analytical Chemists

Administrative Procedures Act

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA)

Agricultural Research Service (USDA)

American Society of Animal Science

American Sheep Industry Association

American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (Bureau of)

Assistant United States Attorney

American Veal Association

American Veterinary Distributors Association

American Veterinary Medical Association

Absent Without Official Leave

Bovine Growth Hormone

Blacks in Government

Bioresearch Monitoring

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Bovine Somatotropin

Computer Assisted New Drug Application

Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (Johns Hopkins)

Council for Agricultural Science and Technology or Calf Antibiotic Swab Test

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

Commissioned Corps

Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Center for Devices and Radiological Health

Catfish Farmers of America

Central File Number

CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Current Good Manufacturing Practices

Close of Business

Council on Biologics and Therapeutic Agents (of AVMA)

Codex Alimentarius, international food standards organization

Conflict of Interest

Compliance Program or Citizen Petition

Compliance Policy Guide

Consumer Product Safety Commission

Collection Report

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

Consumer Safety Inspector

Consumer Safety Officer

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (USDA)

Chlortetracycline

Consumers Union

Center for Veterinary Medicine

DAF

DAL

DC

DD

DCU

DEA

DER

DES

DESI

DHHS

DIB

DO

DOJ

DOT

DSHEA

DVM

EA

EASE

EEO

EFOIA

EIA

EID

EIR

EIS

ELDU

E.O.

EPA

EU

FACT

FACTS

FAI

FAP

FAPMC

FARAD

FASS

FDAMA

FDC

FDLI

FFDCA

FIFRA

FMFIA

FMI

FOI

FOIA

FOB

FONSI

FPL

FR

Division of Animal Feeds (CVM)

Defect Action Level

Division of Compliance (CVM)

District Director

Document Control Unit

Drug Enforcement Administration (DOJ)

Drug Experience Report

Diethylstilbestrol or Division of Epidemiology and Surveillance (CVM)

Drug Efficacy Study Implementation

Department of Health and Human Services

Director, Investigations Branch

District Office

Department of Justice

Department of Transportation

Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act of 1994

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine

Environmental Assessment

Enterprise Administrative Support Environment

Equal Employment Opportunity

Electronic Freedom of Information Act

Environmental Impact Assessment

Electronic Identification Device

Establishment Inspection Report

Environmental Impact Statement

Extra-label Drug Use

Executive Order

Environmental Protection Agency

European Union

Food Animal Concerns Trust

Field Accomplishments & Compliance Tracking System

Further Action Indicated

Food Additive Petition

Food Animal Production Medicine Consortium

Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank

Federation of Animal Science Societies

Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act

Food, Drug, & Cosmetic

Food and Drug Law Institute

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act

Federal Manager’s Financial Integrity Act

Food Marketing Institute

Freedom of Information

Freedom of Information Act

Federal Office Building

Finding of No Significant Impact

Final Printed Labeling

FEDERAL REGISTER

FRAC

FRC

FSH

FSI

FSIS

FTE

FTC

FQ

FWP

FY

GADPTRA

GAO

GATT

GC

GG

GGP

GLP

GMA

GMP

GPO

GRAS

GPRA

HACCP

HPLC

HPO

HSUS

iiFAR

IACUC

IAMFES

ICCVAM

ICLAS

IDE

IG

ILAR

IMS

INAD

INADA

IND

IOM

IRB

IS

IV

JAVMA

JECFA

JIFSAN

LACF

FDA Research Animal Council

Federal Records Center

Follicle Stimulating Hormone

Food Safety Initiative

Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA)

Full Time Equivalent (employee)

Federal Trade Commission

Fluoroquinolone

Federal Women’s Program

Fiscal Year

Generic Animal Drug and Patent Term Restoration Act

General Accounting Office

General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs

Gas Chromatography

Goal Group

Good Guidance Practices

Good Laboratory Practice

Grocery Manufacturers of America

Good Manufacturing Practice

Government Printing Office

Generally Recognized as Safe (food ingredients)

Government Performance and Results Act (now known as the Results Act)

Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (inspection technique)

High Pressure Liquid Chromatography

High Performance Organization

Humane Society of the United States

Incurably ill For Animal Research

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

International Association of Milk, Food, Environmental Sanitarians

Interagency Coordinating Committee on Validation of Alternative Methods

International Council for Laboratory Animal Science

Investigational Device Exemption

Inspector General

Institute for Laboratory Animal Research

Interstate Milk Shippers

Investigational New Animal Drug

Investigational New Animal Drug Application

Investigational New Drug (application)

Investigations Operations Manual

Institutional Review Board

Interstate Commerce

Intravenous

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives

Joint Institute for Food Safety and Nutrition

Low Acid Canned Food

LAN

LCI

LRP

LVP

LWOP

MOA

MON

MNVP

MOD 1

MOD 2

MOU

MPN

MQSA

MS

MUMS

MWG

NAA

NABR

NADA

NADE

NAFTA

NAI

NAL

NARMS

NASDA

NAS/NRC

NCBA

NCC

NCE

NCI

NCIE

NCIMS

NCTR

NDA

NDRMMP

NEJM

NEPA

NFSS

NGFA

NIH

NLEA

NME

NMFS

NMPF

NOA

NOH

NOOH

NPCC

NPPC

NPRM

NRC

NRSP-7

NTIS

NTF

OAI

OC

Local Area Network

Livestock Conservation Institute

Low Regulatory Priority

Large Volume Parenteral (greater than 200 cc)

Leave Without Pay

Memorandum of Agreement

Memorandum of Need

Medically Necessary Veterinary Product

Module One (laboratory facility-CFSAN)

Module Two (laboratory facility-CVM)

Memorandum of Understanding

Metro Park North

Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992

Mass Spectroscopy

Minor Use Minor Species

Milk Working Group

National Aquaculture Association

National Association for Biomedical Research

New Animal Drug Application

New Animal Drug Evaluation

North American Free Trade Agreement

No Action Indicated

National Agricultural Library

National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture

National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

National Chicken Council

New Chemical Entity

National Cancer Institute

Notice of Claimed Investigational Exemption

National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments

National Center for Toxicological Research

New Drug Application

National Drug Residue Milk Monitoring Program

New England Journal of Medicine

National Environmental Policy Act

National Food Safety System

National Grain and Feed Association

National Institutes of Health

Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990

New Molecular Entity

National Marine Fisheries Service

National Milk Producers Federation

Notice of Availability

Notice of Hearing

Notice of Opportunity for a Hearing

National Poison Control Center

National Pork Producers Council

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

National Research Support Project #7

National Technical Information Service

National Turkey Federation

Official Action Indicated

Office of the Commissioner

OCA

OCC

OCI

OD

OEI

OLA

OMAC

OMB

ONADE

OOB

OPA

OPM

OR

OPE

ORA

ORO

OSC

OSHA

OTC

PAG

PAHO

PAL

PAMP

PAS

PCB

PD

PDA

PDMA

PDP

PDR

PEP

PETA

PFI

PFL

PHS

PKLN

PLA

PMA

PMO

PPB

PPI

PPM

PSA

PST

QA

QWL

RDA

RFDD

Office of Consumer Affairs

Office of Chief Counsel

Office of Criminal Investigations

Office of the Director

Official Establishment Inventory

Office of Legislative Affairs

Office of Management and Communications

Office of Management and Budget

Office of New Animal Drug Evaluation

Out of Business

Office of Public Affairs

Office of Personnel Management

Office of Research

Office of Planning and Evaluation

Office of Regulatory Affairs

Office of Regional Operations

Office of Surveillance and Compliance

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Over-the-Counter (drugs) or Oxytetracycline

Project Advisory Group

Pan American Health Organization

Public Affairs Liaison

Post-approval Monitoring Program

Public Affairs Specialist

Polychlorinated Biphenyls

Position Description

Prescription Drug Advertising

Prescription Drug Marketing Act

Product Development Protocols (for medical devices)

Physician’s Desk Reference

Performance Evaluation Plan

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Pet Food Institute

Professional Flexible Labeling

Public Health Service

Parklawn Building

Product License Application (for biologics)

Pre-Market Approval (application) (for medical devices)

Pasteurized Milk Ordinance

Parts Per Billion (ppb)

Patient Package Insert

Parts Per Million (ppm)

Poultry Science Association

Porcine Somatotropin

Quality Assurance

Quality of Work Life

Recommended Daily Alowance

Regional Food and Drug Director

RIA

RIC

RIF

RPM

RX

SAI

SBA

SBRS

SCAW

SES

SIG

SGE

SGO

SMDA

SME

SOM

SOP

SOW

STARS

TA

TLC

TRO

TSCA

TSE

USAHA

USC

USDA

USP

USPEA

USTFA

VAERS

VAI

VCPR

VFD

VICH

VMAC

VMD

VMF

VMO

WEAC

WHO

Y2K

Radioimmunoassay

Resident in Charge

Reduction in Force

Regulatory Procedures Manual

Prescription (drug)

Single Active Ingredient

Summary Basis of Approval

Senior Biomedical Research Service

Scientists Center for Animal Welfare

Senior Executive Service

Strategic Implementation Group

Special Government Employee

Surgeon General’s Office

Safe Medical Devices Act

Subject Matter Expert

Sensitivity of Method

Standard Operating Procedure

Statement of Work or Scope of Work

Submission Tracking and Reporting System

Temporary Abeyance

Thin Layer Chromatography

Temporary Restraining Order

Toxic Substance Control Act

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

U.S. Animal Health Association

United States Code

United States Department of Agriculture

United States Pharmacopeia

U.S. Poultry and Egg Association

U.S. Trout Farmers Association

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

Voluntary Action Indicated

Veterinarian/Client/Patient Relationship

Veterinary Feed Directive

Veterinary International Committee on Harmonisation

Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee

Veterinary Medical Doctor

Veterinary Master File

Veterinary Medical Officer

Winchester Engineering and Analytical Center

World Health Organization

Year 2000

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