Pre-market notification (Medical devices substantially equivalent to products already on the market)

Abbreviated Antibiotic Drug Application

American Association of Feed Control Officials

Adverse Drug Event

Animal Drug Availability Act of 1996

Adverse Drug Report

Adverse Events Reporting System

Animal Health Institute

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act

Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application

Abbreviated New Drug Application

Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

American National Standards Institute

Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (USDA)

Anti-microbial Resistance

American Veterinary Medical Association

Bioresearch Monitoring

Biological Investigational New Drug Application Management System

Business Continuity and Contingency Plan

Biologics License Application

Blood Logging and Tracking System

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease)

Biosafety Level

Bioterrorism

Conformity Assessment Bodies

CFSAN Adverse Event Reporting System

Compliance Achievement Reporting System

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (FDA)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (FDA)

Center for Devices and Radiological Health (FDA)

Chief Financial Officer

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (FDA)

Current Good Manufacturing Practices

Critical Infrastructure Protection

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls

Chronic Wasting Disease

Compliance Status Information System

Common Business Oriented Language

Continuity of Operations

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

Contract Research Organization

Contamination Response System

Counter terrorism

Correspondence Tracking System

Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA)

Chronic Wasting Disease

Department of Health and Human Services

Deoxyribonucleic Acid

Department of Defense

Department of Labor

Drug Quality Reporting System

Drug Registration and Listing System

Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act

Electronic Document Room

Electronic Data Management System

Emerging Infection Program

Establishment Inspection Report

Establishment License Application

Environmental Protection Agency

Economic Research Service

Environmental Tobacco Smoke

European Union

Federal Aviation Administration

Field Accomplishment and Compliance Tracking System

Act Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act

Food and Agricultural Organization (United Nations)

Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA)

Food and Drug Administration

Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997

Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act

Field Information System

Fluoroquinolone

Foot and Mouth Disease

Federal Manager’s Financial Integrity Act

Food Outbreak Response Coordination Group

Final Printed Label

Fair Packaging and Labeling Act

Food Safety Initiative (National)

Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA)

Federal Trade Commission

Full-time Equivalent

Fiscal Year (October - September)

General Accounting Office

Good Agricultural Practices

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Genetic Modification Clinical Research Information System

Good Laboratory Practices

Genetically Modified Organisms

Good Manufacturing Practices

Government Performance and Results Act of 1993

Generally Recognized as Safe Food Ingredients

General Standards for Food Additives

Gene Therapy Information System

Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points

Hepatitis C Virus

Humanitarian Device Exemption

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Humanitarian Use Device

Interagency Agreement

Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

International Conference on Harmonization

Investigational Device Exemption

Investigational New Animal Drug

Investigational New Animal Drug Application

Investigational New Drug

Institute of Medicine

Institutional Review Board

International Life Sciences Institute

International Standards Organization

Individual Safety Reports

Information Technology

In Vitro Diagnostic

Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives

Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Generic Investigational New Animal Drug

Low Acid Canned Foods

Local Area Network

Least Burdensome Industry Task Force

Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization

Metastable Atom Bombardment

Management Assignment Tracking System

Meat and Bone Meal

Medical Device Reporting System

Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act

Medical Product Surveillance Network

Medical Event Reporting System for Transfusion Medicine

Medicated Feed Application

Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal

Memorandum of Understanding

Mammography Program Reporting and Information Systems

Mammography Quality Standards Act

Mutual Recognition Agreement

Minor Use/Minor Species

New Animal Drug Application

North American Free Trade Agreement

TWG North American Free Trade Agreement Technical Working Group

National Animal Health Monitoring System

National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System

National Academy of Sciences

National Agricultural Statistics Survey

Nucleic Acid Test

National Committee on Clinical Laboratory Standards

National Cancer Institute

Notice of Claimed Investigational Exemptions

National Center for Toxicological Research (FDA)

New Drug Application

New Drug Evaluation Management Information System

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Institute for Biological Standards and Control

National Institute on Drug Abuse

National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Nutrition Labeling and Education Act

New Molecular Entity

Notice of Hearing

National Partnership for Reinventing Government

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

National Research Council

National Toxicology Program

new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

National Vaccine Program Office

Operational and Administrative System for Import Support

Office of Blood Research and Review (CBER)

Office of Cellular, Tissues and Gene Therapies (CBER)

Office of Premarket Approvals (CFSAN)

Office of Regulatory Affairs (FDA)

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Over-the-Counter

Office of Testing and Research (CDER)

Office of Therapeutics Research and Review (CBER)

Office of Vaccines Research and Review (CBER)

Public Affairs Specialist (FDA)

Product Development Protocols

Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992

Porcine endogenous retrovirus

Produce and Food Safety Initiative

Protocol Investigator Site Inspection

Product License Application

Premarket Approval (Application to market medical device that requires Premarket approval)

Premarket Notification

Project-Oriented Data System

Product Quality Research Initiative

Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship

Quality System Inspection Technique

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act

Reinventing Government Initiative

Regulatory Information Management Staff (CBER)

Regulatory Management System-Biologics License Application

Residue Violation Information System

Science Advisory Board

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act

Salmonella Enteriditis

Special Nutritional Adverse Events Monitoring System

Submission Tracking and Review System

Salmonella Tphimurium DT 104

Tuberculosis

Time of flight

Tissue Residue Information System

United Kingdom

University of Maryland-College Park

United States Department of Agriculture

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Venezuelean Equine Encephalitis

Veterinary International Cooperation on Harmonization

Veterinary Feed Directive

Veterinary International Conference on Harmonization

United Nations World Health Organization

West Nile Virus

World Trade Organization