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National Medical Products Administration (NMPA)

A Chinese national regulatory organization that supervises the safety, registration procedures, and standard management for drugs (including traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) and ethnomedicine), medical devices, and cosmetics.

Glossary

normal range

A set of acceptable values acquired from the conducted laboratory tests to assess the subject's health condition. Normal ranges are expressed as precise numeric values, often with units of measurement, to judge if the test result is normal or abnormal.