発薬生 = NHI?

[Warren Smith]

厚生労働省発薬生####

 

This is something issued by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, related to a "Confirmation of a new chemical substance"

 

DeeplL gives 発薬生 as "NHI," but I am not sure what the is an abbreviation for.

 

Is anybody well versed on this sort of thing?

 

Thanks,

 

Warren

 

 

[JON JOHANNING]

Could be a garbling of (something or other) 発性薬 — a chemical that generates something or other. But I don’t have time right now to puzzle it all out.

Jon Johanning

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On Apr 12, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Warren Smith <Warren...@Comcast.net> wrote:

発薬生

[Warren Smith]

Thanks, Jon.

 

I think it may be a legitimate government abbreviation of some sort. (I hate government abbreviations!) Or perhaps it is a common corruption of a government abbreviation...

 

It is found this string of kanji in a bunch of documents (in the same context), such as this one: https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/000765159.pdf (not the document I am translating).

Judging from the other descriptors, "hatsu" is likely "issued by". Maybe that's the "I" (if the DeepL translation is correct...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Jon Johanning]

Good idea, Warren. I'm always bedeviled by those government abbreviations, too, especially ones with 発 in them.

Jon Johanning

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[Motohiro Kojima]

Warren Smith様

I think 「発」 means, as you wrote, "issued by."
「薬生」maybe means「厚生労働省医薬・生活衛生局長」.
I found this document, for example.
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/000622338.pdf

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[Brian Watson]

Just to share a reference I use, not that I'm certain it's helpful in this instance...

https://www.acronymfinder.com/NHI.html

Brian Watson

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[Herman]

I don't know what NHI would be, but 厚生労働省発薬生 can be expanded as
厚生労働省医薬・生活衛生局長通知 and could be translated for instance as
"PSEHB Notification ###" or "Notification ### from the the Director of
the Pharmaceutical Safety and Environmental Health Bureau, Ministry of
Health, Labor and Welfare".


Herman Kahn

[Warren Smith]

Thanks, Kojima-sama!

That was the key.

I think that 薬生 must be an abbreviation for 医薬・生活衛生局,
"Pharmaceutical and Life Science Bureau"

The "NHI" is likely a red herring, something like, "National Health
Institute," or something that is somewhat similar in the US or Britain.

So I am going with "Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Pharmaceutical
and Life Science Bureau Doc. ####." (Translating "発" as "document")

Thanks for your help, y'all!

Warren

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[Warren Smith]

OK -- now that Herman has sounded in, I will go with his suggestion instead.


Another save for the great Kahn! (Thanks -- I owe you one, Herman...)

W

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