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Sutures are sold ia the United States under generic and/or proprietary names. The most widely sold sutures are Hsted ia Table 1. The generic names for the synthetic polymeric sutures are those that have been approved by the United States Adopted Names Council (USAN). 

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Vinblastine sulfate is the nonproprietary name assigned by the United States Adopted Names Council to the compound originally named vinca-leukoblastine sulfate1 s 3. It is the 1 1 sulfate salt of an alkaloid obtained from the plant Vinca rosea Linn. (Catharanthus roseus G. Don) of the family Apocynaceae, better known as Madagascar periwinkle. Frequently the name is abbreviated to VLB sulfate. It is also identified by the code numbers NSC-49812 and 29060-LE4. The elucidation of the molecular structure, stereochemistry, and absolute configuration of this interesting compound is fully documented in the literature5 7 8. 

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In the dmg field, there is a need for simple and useful nonproprietary names for dmgs. The United States Adopted Names (USAN) Council chooses generic names for dmgs used in the United States. A list is available (11). 

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Early and current efforts originating in the United States for standardization of chemical nomenclature on both a national and international level are reviewed. Committees sponsored by the National Research Council, which is the official organization for dealing with the IUPAC, and ACS committees correlate work to achieve consistency. These committees, with names and addresses of chairmen, are listed. British-U. S. cooperation on standardizing nomenclature, which resulted in joint adoption of ten rules in 1923, has been renewed. Nomenclature information is published in ACS periodicals and in eighteen pamphlets which are available from Chemical Abstracts. 

The generic name of a drug is not derived from systematic nomenclature. The group responsible for most generic names in the United States is the U.S. Adopted Names (USAN) Council, a private organization founded by the American Medical Association, the American Pharmacists Association, and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention. 

The Council recalled that, at its Sixteenth Session, the Conference of the States Parties (hereinafter the Conference ) adopted a decision on the final extended deadline of 29 April 2012 (C-16/DEC.11, dated 1 December 2011). The Council expressed its concern regarding the Director-General s statement in his report, provided in accordance with paragraph 2 of C-16/DEC.11, that the three possessor States Parties, namely Libya, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America, have been unable to fully meet the final extended deadline of 29 April 2012 for the destraction of their chemical weapons stockpiles (EC-68/DG.9, dated 1 May 2012). 

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