Recommended International

Dangerous goods" is defined in the context of recommended international hazardous material transportation regulations. The UN "Orange Book" should be consulted for further information on the definition of dangerous goods for transportation purposes (UN 2002). 

The recommended International Non-proprietary Name (rINN) is used throughout the book, except when the terms used are adrenaline and noradrenaline. For further reference, see the British National Formulary. 

Nations Consolidated List of Products Whose Consumption and/or Sale Have Been Banned, Withdrawn, Severely Restricted or not Approved by Governments. WHO publishes updates to this list Pharmaceuticals Restrictions in use and availability. WHO publishes also quarterly WHO Drug Information (http //www.who.int/druginformation/) journal which provides an overview of topics of current relevance relating to drug development, safety and regulation. Latest lists of proposed and recommended International Nonproprietary Names (INN) for Pharmaceutical Substances are also published in this journal. 

Codex General Standardfor Irradiated Foods and Recommended International Code of Practice for the Operation of Radiation Facilities Used for the Treatment of Food, CAC/Vol. XV-Ed. 1, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 1984. 

Standards for anhydrous lactose are presented in Recommended International Standards for Lactose by the Food and Agriculture Organization, Codex Alimentarius, 1969. 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations—World Health Organization. 1969. Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme, Codex Alimentarius Commission. Recommended International Standards for Lactose. Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome. 

Many gas chromatographic methods for amphetamine have been developed since then, most of which include a recommended internal standard such as N,N-dimethylaniline, phenethylamine, and di-phenylamine. These methods also include the formation of derivatives such as the acetylated amines and the ketone derivative of amphetamine as a further check on identity. 

Table 3 Recommended International Non-proprietary Names (rINNs) and chemical names of the major prostaglandins...

We are also currently experiencing a transitional period during which many established drug names are being changed to recommended international non-proprietary names (rINN) both names are included here, the rINN preceding the older name. 

Table 1 Nominal widths (DN) and recommended internal diameters for...

FAOAVHO. Recommended International Standard for Edible Sunflower Seed Oil, FAO and WHO, Rome, Italy, 1970. 

Spelling of drug names. The World Health Organization devises recommended International Nonproprietary Names (rINN). These are becoming universal most do not give rise to any confusion, but occasionally we insert an alternative name or spelling. 

A nonproprietary (official, approved, generic) name used in pharmacopoeias and chosen by official bodies the World Health Organization (WHO) chooses recommended International Nonproprietary Names (rINN). The harmonisation of names began 50 years ago, and... 

International travellers with chronic illnesses will be grateful for recommended International Nonproprietary Names (above) as proprietary names often differ from country to country. The reasons are linguistic as well as commercial (see below). 

Although epinephrine is the recommended International Non-proprietary Name (rINN), there are good reasons why the name adrenahne should be preferred, based on usage, history, etymology, and, most importantly, risk of chnical errors (1). 

Gifts may bear no more than the name of a product, its approved name and logo of the company, and the name of the medicinal product, or its recommended international non-proprietary name (or rINN), where this exists, or the trademark, unless they adhere to the requirements for promotional advertising. 

The organiser determines the topics of the event. These should be treated in an objective manner based on the current state of scientific knowledge. In principle, when medicinal products are mentioned in the lectures, they should be referred to with the internationally acknowledged active ingredient description (DCI) or recommended international non-proprietary name (rINN). 

Non-promotional information for patients and the general public Subject to any applicable national laws and regulations, websites may include non-promotional information for patients and the general public on products distributed by the company (including information on their indications, side effects, interactions with other medicines, proper use, reports of clinical research, etc.), provided that such information is balanced, accurate and consistent with the approved summary of product characteristics (SPC). For each product that is discussed, the website must contain full, unedited copies of the current SPC and patient leaflet. These documents should be posted in conjunction with other information about the products or be connected with that discussion by a prominent link advising the reader to consult them. In addition, the website may provide a link to the full, unedited copy of any public assessment report issued by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use or a relevant national competent authority. Brand names should be accompanied by recommended international non-proprietary names (rINNs). 

The American Water Work Association (AWWA) and US ERA developed a number of methods for phenol determination . ERA Method 528 is dedicated to the determination of phenols in drinking water by solid-phase extraction and GC/MS analysis and is developed for 12 phenols, mainly chlorophenols, nitro- and methyl-substituted phenols . Unfortunately, users have to take into account that the recommended internal standard tetrachlorophenol can also be found in water samples and has to be used with precaution or, better, substituted with another compound. The same problem applies in the case of the recommended surrogate 2,4,6-tribromophenol, which cannot be used in the analysis of water in areas with high bromine ion content. (Some examples of tribromophenol formation by humic or fulvic acid chlorination was mentioned by Richardson °°.)... 

Codex Alimentarus, CAC/RCP 19-1979, Rev. 2-2003, recommended international code of practice for irradiation processing of food, 2003. 

Where no objection has been filed under article 5, or all objections previously filed have been withdrawn, the Secretariat shall give notice in accordance with subsection (a) of article 3 that the name has been selected by WHO as a recommended international nonproprietary name. 

In forwarding a recommended international nonproprietary name to Member States under article 7, the Secretariat shall ... 

A. hi the extraordinary circumstance that a previously recommended international nonproprietary name gives rise to errors in medication, prescription, or distribution, or a demonstrable risk thereof, because of similarity with another name in pharmaceutical and/or prescription practices, and it appears that such errors or potential errors cannot readily be resolved through other interventions than a possible substitution of a previously recommended international nonproprietary name, or in the event that a previously recommended international nonproprietary name differs substantially from the nonproprietary name approved in a significant number of Member States, or in other such extraordinary circumstances that justify a substitution of a recommended international nonproprietary name, proposals to that effect may be filed by any interested person. Such proposals shall be submitted on the form provided therefore and shall ... 

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