A2LA – American Association for Laboratory Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
USCPSC – The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission
USEPA – The United States Environmental Protection Agency
ISO – The International Standards Association
CEN – Comité Européen de Normalisation
EN – European Normalization
CSA – The Canadian Standards Association
PPPA – The Poison Prevention Packaging Act
CPSA – The Consumer Product Safety Act
CPSIA – The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
FHSA – Federal Hazardous Substances Act
FIFRA – Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
CRP – Child-Resistant Packaging
PPP – Poison Prevention Packaging
Special Packaging – Child-Resistant, Senior-Use Effective packaging
CRE – Child-Resistant Effectiveness
SUE – Senior-Use Effectiveness
F-value – unit access number at which the regulatory hazard level is reached
IOPP – Institute for Packaging Professionals
ISR – Institute for Standards Research
Microbiological Testing
A2LA – American Association for Laboratory Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
FDA – Food and Drug Administration
USP – United States Pharmacopeia
Ph.Eur. (EP) – European Pharmacopoeia
JP – Japanese Pharmacopoeia
CTFA – Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association, now the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC)
AAMI – Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
MLT – Microbial Limit Test. Now known as Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products USP Chapters <61> and <62>, Ph.Eur. 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 and JP 12
TAMC – Total Aerobic Microbial Count
TCYMC – Total Combined Yeast & Mold Count
HPC – Heterotrophic Plate Count. Term is typically when testing water
