ACDP |
Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens |
AFRC |
Agriculture and Food Research Council |
ALARP |
As Low As Reasonably Practicable |
Albumin |
A water-soluble form of protein, found especially in blood serum and egg white |
Biologicals |
Medicinal and other products made from biological materials |
BSA |
Bovine serum albumin |
BSE |
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
CDSM |
Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials |
CJD |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
CMO |
Chief Medical Officer |
CNS |
Central nervous system |
CRM |
Committee on Review of Medicines |
CSM |
Committee on Safety of Medicines |
CVL |
Central Veterinary Laboratory |
CVO |
Chief Veterinary Officer |
DH |
Department of Health |
DHSS |
Department of Health and Social Security (the DHSS split into two separate Departments, the DH and DSS, during 1988) |
EEC |
European Economic Community |
Heparin |
A compound occurring in the liver, used as an anticoagulant |
HSE |
Health and Safety Executive |
HVMBG |
Human and Veterinary Medicines Briefing Group |
Index case |
A first case in a specified group |
Insulin |
A pancreatic hormone used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus |
Kuru |
A human spongiform encephalopathy |
Licensing Authority |
Under the Medicines Act 1968, the Authority that licences medicines: eg, the Secretary of State for Health or the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
LRS |
Lymphoreticular system |
MAFF |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
MBM |
Meat and bone meal |
MRC |
Medical Research Council |
NPU |
Neuropathogenesis Unit |
OPCS |
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys |
Parenteral |
Involving another part of the body than the mouth and alimentary canal. Hence parenteral products exclude medicines taken orally, for example, or suppositories |
Q&A |
Question and answer |
SBO |
Specified Bovine Offal |
SEAC |
Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, set up in response to the Tyrrell Committee's recommendations |
Serum |
The clear portion of any body fluid |
SVS |
State Veterinary Service |
Thymus gland |
A lymphoid organ important in the immune system, and a Specified Bovine Offal |
Titre |
A measure of concentration (of an infectious agent) |
TME |
Transmissible mink encephalopathy |
Topical |
Of drugs or treatments applied locally to the area being treated |
TSE |
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy |
Tyrrell Committee |
Consultative Committee on Research (into spongiform encephalopathies) |
VPC |
Veterinary Products Committee |
Zoonosis |
An animal disease which can be transmitted to humans |
