| ADEC |
Australian Drug Evaluation Committee |
| ADRAC |
Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee |
| AGS |
Australian Government Solicitor |
| AHEC |
Australian Health Ethics Committee |
| AHPHP |
Australian Human Pituitary Hormone Program |
| AIDS |
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
| Allars Inquiry |
Inquiry into the Use of Pituitary Derived Hormones in Australia
and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Professor Margaret Allars - Head of
Inquiry |
| ALRC |
Australian Law Reform Commission |
| CJD |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
| CJDSGN |
CJD Support Group Network |
| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| CSL |
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Ltd (used generally to refer to
all bodies from previous Commission to current Company) |
| DHFS |
Department of Health and Family Services |
| FSH |
follicle stimulating hormone |
| GMP |
Code of Good Manufacturing Practice |
| Health Department |
The respective Commonwealth Departments responsible for health matters
|
| HIV |
human immunodeficiency virus |
| hMG |
human menopausal gonadotrophin |
| HPAC |
Human Pituitary Advisory Committee |
| hGH |
human growth hormone |
| hPG |
human pituitary gonadotrophin |
| HPH |
human pituitary hormone |
| IECs |
institutional ethics committees |
| LAFS |
Legal Aid and Family Services, Attorney-General's Department |
| LH |
luteinising hormone |
| Macedones |
Macedone Christie Willis Lawyers |
| NBTC |
National Blood Transfusion Committee |
| NBSL |
National Biological Standards Laboratory |
| NHAC |
National Health Advisory Committee |
| NHMRC |
National Health and Medical Research Council |
| NPHAC |
National Pituitary Hormones Advisory Council |
| PBAC |
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee |
| PHTF |
Pituitary Hormones Task Force |
| Rennicks |
Rennick Briggs Lawyers (formerly Rennick Gaynor Kiddle Briggs) |
| SRSC |
Scientific Research Subcommittee (of NPHAC) |
| Trust Account |
Human Pituitary Hormones Trust Account |
| WHO |
World Health Organisation |
| VPG |
Victorian Pituitary Group |