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- International Nonproprietary Names (INN) facilitate the identification of pharmaceutical substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients. Each INN is a unique name that is globally recognized and is public property. A nonproprietary name is also known as a generic name.
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International Nonproprietary Names (INN) facilitate the identification of pharmaceutical substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients. Each INN is a unique name that is globally recognized and is public property. A nonproprietary name is also known as a generic name.
An international nonproprietary name (INN) is an official generic and nonproprietary name given to a pharmaceutical drug or an active ingredient. INNs are intended to make communication more precise by providing a unique standard name for each active ingredient, to avoid prescribing errors.
International Nonproprietary Names (INN) identify pharmaceutical substances or active pharmaceutical ingredients. Each INN is a unique name that is globally recognized and is public property. A nonproprietary name is also known as a generic name. The INN system is managed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Overview. The present document on the use of INNs is intended as a general explanation of the INN selection process. They have been developed for drug regulatory authorities for use in the marketing authorization/registration of products, drug manufacturers who are requesting new INNs and those using INNs, patent authorities/offices, trademark ...
Guidance on the use of international nonproprietary names (INNs) for pharmaceutical substances. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Cataloguing-in-Publication (CIP) data. CIP data are available at http://apps.who.int/iris. Sales, rights and licensing.
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International non-proprietary name. The globally recognised name used to identify the active ingredient in a medicine. Abbreviated as INN. For more information, see international non-proprietary names.
More than 50 years ago, WHO established the International Nonproprietary Name (INN) Expert Group/WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations, to assign nonproprietary names (INN) to medicinal substances, so that each substance would be recognized globally by a unique name.
