| Acronym | Meaning |
| IACG | Inter-Agency Consultative Group |
| OECD/SIDS | Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Developments Screening Information Data Sets |
| BADGER | Bay Area Digital Geo-Resource |
| APAF | Apoptosis Protease Activating Factor |
| EQL | Estimated Quantitation Limit |
| FATE | Functional Attributes In Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| DAM | Diallyl Maleate |
| OCH | Ochkur (approxn. In Electron-atom Scattering Calcns.) |
| GC/MS/DS | Gas Chromatography/mass Spectrometry/data System (Finnigan) |
| AFCRL | Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories |