INN 81st Executive Summary

During the 81st INN Consultation, 281 INN requests were discussed, including:

• 244 new INN requests, of which 136 were for biological substances

• 34 outstanding requests

• 3 objections

As a result of these discussions, 269 new names were selected, which are planned to be published in List 135 of proposed INN (p.INN) and COVID-19-related requests only in pending List 134. Three requests did not fulfil INN criteria (No INN), 4 were withdrawn by the applicant and 5 requests were deferred for future discussion.

Four new stems/substems were selected, two suffixes were promoted to the pre-stems list and it was decided to review the description of two stems before the 82nd INN Consultation.