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USAN Council

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USAN Council,
n.pr the United States Adopted Names Council, responsible for the selection of appropriate nonproprietary names for drugs used in the United States.
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The USAN Council (tri-sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA), the United States Pharmacopeia Convention (USP), and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), aims for global standardization and unification of drug nomenclature and related rules to ensure that drug information is communicated accurately and unambiguously, working closely with the International Nonproprietary Name (INN) program of the World Health Organization, and various national nomenclature groups.
The purpose of the USAN Council is to select simple, informative and unique nonproprietary names for drugs based on pharmacological and/or chemical relationship.
Pegloticase became the official generic name for Puricase assigned by the USAN Council replacing the previously used name of PEG-uricase.
 
 
 
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