Brazilian Nonproprietary Name

In 1970 Andrejus Korolkovas, from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, was already publishing about the importance of a nomenclature to harmonize the names of drugs.^[6] In the year 1981, a list of generic names that would be mandatory for a new registration of a medicine was published in the Official Gazette of the Union, by the Ministry of Health. A standardization of nomenclature was carried out, and the introduction of numerical codes that would allow the identification of the substances. In 1983 the use of the standard nomenclature in official documents was made mandatory.^[6]

• International Nonproprietary Name
• British Approved Name
• United States Adopted Name
• Interactive Terminology for Europe
• IUPAC nomenclature