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To help you decode the numerous acronyms and other industry terminology, we've assembled the following glossary.

ANDA - Abbreviated New Drug Application
API - Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient
cGMP - Current Good Manufacturing Practices
CPSIA - The Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA) of 1970 established the requirement to use child resistant closures on containers of household chemicals including drugs, and that manufacturers test the closures' effectiveness. The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008 requires that retailers provide certification that products they sell meet the test requirements of the PPPA.
DEA - U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
DESI - Drug Efficacy Study Implementation
These are drugs that were approved solely on the basis of their safety prior to 1962. Thereafter, Congress required drugs to be shown to be effective as well. FDA initiated a Drug Efficacy Study Implementation(DESI) to evaluate the effectiveness of those drugs that had been previously approved on safety grounds alone. These drugs, and those identical, related, and similar to them, may continue to be marketed until the administrative proceedings evaluating their effectiveness have been concluded, at which point continued marketing is only permitted if an NDA is approved for such drugs.
eCTD - electronic Common Technical Document. For details on the U.S. FDA application process, visit http://www.fda.gov/cder/regulatory/ersr/ectd.htm.
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
Form 483 - FDA Form 483 is referred to as "Notice of Inspectional Observations."
The 483 is issued by the FDA field investigator after an on-site inspection and lists deficiencies of your quality system. The observations contained in every Form 483 are based on the inspector's interpretation of the regulations as they relate to your operational GMP quality system.
FTF - Federal Transition Framework
GMP - Good Manufacturing Practice

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ICH - International Conference on Harmonisation
IP - Intellectual Property
NDC - National Drug Code
Para. IV - Patent Certification Under the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act, or the Hatch-Waxman Act, a company can seek approval from FDA to market a generic drug before the expiration of a patent relating to the brand name drug upon which the generic is based. The first company to submit an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the FDA has the exclusive right to market the generic drug for 180 days. To begin the FDA approval process, the generic applicant must: 1) certify in its ANDA that the patent in question is invalid or is not infringed by the generic product (known as "paragraph IV certification"); and 2) notify the patent holder of the submission of the ANDA. For more information visit http://www.fda.gov/cder/ogd/#paragraph.
QA - Quality Assurance
QbR - Question-based Review
QC - Quality Control
QOS - Quality Overall Summary The Quality Overall Summary summarizes the main points of the ANDA for the reviewers. It is the "roadmap" of the application.
Remarkable - Though remarkable can mean many things, Amneal looks to the definitions of remarkable outlined by Seth Godin in his book Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable. Here the key to success is to find a way to stand out. Read more about this concept at http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/.
USP - United States Pharmacopeia The official public standards-setting authority for all prescription and over-the-counter medicines, dietary supplements, and other healthcare products manufactured and sold in the United States.
505(b)2 - A new drug application containing one or more investigations necessary to approval that were not conducted by the applicant and for which the applicant has no right of reference.

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