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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:02:30 -0500
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Some Australian abbreviations for commonly used chemical are different than those used in the US. I don’t know if there are other examples from other non-American English speaking countries….I had this pointed out to me a few years ago by some fine Aussie researchers.
If you have any international presence in your labs, you may want to check common chemical abbreviations/acronyms.
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I think it is risky. There are to many definitions of the same abbreviation or acronym out there. When I teach my class on regulations, I tell them that LEPC means Local Emergency Planning Committee, but when I was in industry, it meant that or Local Employee Participation Committee, depending on to whom I was talking.
Dr. Bill
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From: "Mary Ellen A Scott"
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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Abbreviations
To Everyone,
What is your opinion of allowing laboratories to use abbreviations and short hand as long as a key to those abbreviations is kept in a conspicuous location and is clearly identified?
Thoughts? and Thanks
Mary Ellen
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