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  • BPCA

    Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act
  • BPCIA

    Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act
  • BPD

    Biocidal Products Directive
  • BPD

    Biological Product Deviation
  • BPD

    Broncho-Pulmonary Dysplasia
  • BPE

    Bioprocessing Equipment (ASME National Standard)
  • BPE

    Bulk Pharmaceutical Excipient
  • BPH

    Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
  • BPHC

    Bureau of Primary Health Care (HRSA)
  • BPL

    Biologic Product License Number (ORA AofC code)
  • BPM

    Beats per Minute
  • BPR

    Business Process Re-engineering
  • BPS

    Bits Per Second
  • BPSA

    Bio-Process Systems Alliance
  • BPSRG

    Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Group (United Kingdom)
  • BPT

    Best Practicable Control Technology for existing direct dischargers (EPA)
  • BPV

    Bovine Parvovirus
  • BR

    Butadiene Rubber
  • Bracketing

    (ICH Q1A (R2)) The design of a stability schedule such that only samples on the extremes of certain design factors, e.g., strength, package size, are tested at all time points as in a full design. The design assumes that the stability of any intermediate levels is represented by the stability of the extremes tested. Where a range of strengths is to be tested, bracketing is applicable if the strengths are identical or very closely related in composition (e.g., for a tablet range made with different compression weights of a similar basic granulation, or a capsule range made by filling different plug fill weights of the same basic composition into different size capsule shells). Bracketing can be applied to different container sizes or different fills in the same container closure system.
  • Bracketing

    An experimental design to test only the extremes of, for example, dosage strength. The design assumes the extremes will be representative of all the samples between the extremes
  • Branch

    An instruction which causes program execution to jump to a new point in the program sequence, rather than execute the next instruction. Synonym: Jump.
  • Branch Analysis

    A test case identification technique which produces enough test cases such that each decision has a true and a false outcome at least once.
  • Branch Coverage

    (NBS) A test coverage criteria which requires that for each decision point each possible branch be executed at least once. Synonym: Decision Coverage.
  • Branch Testing

    (NBS) Testing technique to satisfy coverage criteria which require that for each decision point, each possible branch (outcome) be executed at least once.
  • BrAPP

    British Association Of Pharmaceutical Physicians