Glossary

Division of Plant and Dairy Food Safety (CFSAN)

Division of Post-marketing Development (CDER)

Division of Planning, Evaluation and Budget (CBER)

Division of Planning, Evaluation and Management (ORA)

Division of Programs and Enforcement Policy (OPDFB) (CFSAN)

Division of Programs and Enforcement Policy (OS) (CFSAN)

Division of Planning and Financial Resources Management (CFSAN)

Division of Public Health and Biostatistics (CFSAN)

Dry-Powder Inhaler

Division of Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals (CFSAN)

Drug Product Licensing (Canada)

Design Qualification

Design Quality

Drug Quality and Security Act

Disaster Recovery

Sequence with lower accuracy than a finished sequence; some segments are missing or in the wrong order or orientation.

Dynamic Random Access Memory

(ISO) The unwanted change of the value of an output signal of a device over a period of time when the values of all input signals to the device are kept constant.

EPA’s primary drinking water or comparable regulations of the European Union or Japan.

Drinking water is not covered by a compendial monograph but must comply with the quality attributes of the EPA NPDWR or comparable regulations of the European Union, World Health Organization (WHO), or Japan. It may be derived from a variety of sources including a public water utility, a private water supply (e.g., a well), or a combination of more than one of these sources. Drinking Water may be used in the early stages of chemical synthesis and in the early stages of the cleaning of pharmaceutical equipment. It is the prescribed source feed water for the production of pharmaceutical waters. As seasonal variations in the quality attributes of the drinking water supply can occur, processing steps in the production of pharmaceutical waters must be designed for this characteristic.

A program that links a peripheral device or internal function to the operating system, and providing for activation of all device functions. Synonym: Device Driver.

A concentration of impurity formed in the weld puddle. It floats to the surface when the metal solidifies.

Disaster Recovery Planning

Division of Research Resources

1.Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopeia (USP), official Homoeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States, or official National Formulary (NF), or any supplement to any of them.2.Articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals.3.Articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals.4.Articles intended for use as a component of any article specified in definitions 1 and 2.5.A food, dietary ingredient, or dietary supplement for which a truthful and not misleading statement is made in accordance with section 403(r) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is not a drug solely because the label or the labeling contains such a statement.