PRAC
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PRAC is a committee within the European Medicines Agency responsible for assessing and monitoring the safety of human medicines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| PRAC canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5872851 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PRAC Context triple: [Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee, abbreviation, PRAC]
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Praktikos
Praktikos is an early Christian ascetic treatise by Evagrius Ponticus that outlines practical guidance for monks on combating thoughts and cultivating virtue.
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PRTC
PRTC was a leftist Salvadoran guerrilla organization that became one of the constituent groups of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during El Salvador’s civil war.
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C.
PRTC
PRTC is a public transit agency serving Northern Virginia with commuter and local bus services.
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PRTC
PRTC stands for Primary Reference Time Clock, a highly accurate timing source used in telecommunications networks to provide traceable time and phase synchronization.
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E.
PRA
PRA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, the U.S. federal law that transformed the Post Office Department into the United States Postal Service.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: PRAC Target entity description: PRAC is a committee within the European Medicines Agency responsible for assessing and monitoring the safety of human medicines.
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A.
Praktikos
Praktikos is an early Christian ascetic treatise by Evagrius Ponticus that outlines practical guidance for monks on combating thoughts and cultivating virtue.
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B.
PRTC
PRTC was a leftist Salvadoran guerrilla organization that became one of the constituent groups of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during El Salvador’s civil war.
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C.
PRTC
PRTC is a public transit agency serving Northern Virginia with commuter and local bus services.
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D.
PRTC
PRTC stands for Primary Reference Time Clock, a highly accurate timing source used in telecommunications networks to provide traceable time and phase synchronization.
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E.
PRA
PRA is the commonly used abbreviation for the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, the U.S. federal law that transformed the Post Office Department into the United States Postal Service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | pharmacovigilance committee ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf | Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aim | to protect public health by ensuring the safe use of medicines ⓘ |
| composition |
independent scientific experts
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members nominated by EEA-EFTA states ⓘ members nominated by EU Member States ⓘ representatives of healthcare professionals ⓘ representatives of patients and consumers ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| dateFormed | 2012 ⓘ |
| field |
drug safety
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pharmacovigilance ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| formedAs | new committee under the 2010 EU pharmacovigilance legislation ⓘ |
| fullName | Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
advisory body to the European Medicines Agency Management Board
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providing scientific opinions on safety issues ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | European Union ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Amsterdam
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Netherlands ⓘ |
| meets | monthly ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | European Medicines Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | European Medicines Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| produces |
meeting highlights
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recommendations on safety-related variations and suspensions ⓘ |
| regulatoryFramework |
Directive 2001/83/EC as amended by pharmacovigilance legislation
NERFINISHED
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EU pharmacovigilance legislation ⓘ Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
assessing the safety of human medicines
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monitoring the safety of human medicines ⓘ periodic safety update report assessment ⓘ pharmacovigilance activities in the EU ⓘ pharmacovigilance inspections guidance ⓘ post-authorisation safety studies assessment ⓘ providing recommendations on safety-related regulatory actions ⓘ recommending risk minimisation measures for medicines ⓘ risk assessment of adverse drug reactions ⓘ safety-related aspects of risk management plans ⓘ signal detection and evaluation for medicinal products ⓘ |
| scope | human medicines ⓘ |
| website | https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/committees/pharmacovigilance-risk-assessment-committee-prac ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use
NERFINISHED
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Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures – Human NERFINISHED ⓘ national competent authorities for medicines in EU and EEA ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: PRAC Description of subject: PRAC is a committee within the European Medicines Agency responsible for assessing and monitoring the safety of human medicines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee within the European Medicines Agency
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abbreviation
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PRAC
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subject surface form:
Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee