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FDA Acronyms and Abbreviations

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FDA Acronyms and Abbreviations Search

The FDA Acronyms and Abbreviations database provides a quick reference to acronyms and abbreviations related to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) activities.

The emphasis is on scientific, regulatory, government agency, and computer application terms.
The database includes some FDA organizational and program acronyms.  For more information about FDA's organization, please see our Web page "FDA Organization."

We have included some terms that are not strictly acronyms because of their relevance to FDA activities. Acronyms for journal titles do not appear in the database.

We encourage you to submit suggestions for acronyms and abbreviations to include in this list.
Send us your suggestions.

Below you will find a compressed data file of the FDA Acronym database. All fields are separated by commas (CSV).  Its use is only recommended for those who wish to import this information into a database or spreadsheet. It will be updated quarterly. The data is one table that includes 3 fields:

  1. ID
  2. Acronym
  3. Definition

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Page created: May 17, 2007; updated March 7, 2008
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