All customers are required to have a license with MedDRA, a thesaurus provided by the ICH (MSSO). Most large and medium biopharma account will have this license, however very small biotechs and academics might need to set this up.

On the PharmaPendium interface the following message is displayed:

'The Toxicity / Adverse Effects tree displayed is a combination of terms from RTECS (r), MedDRA (r) and other terms extracted from various content sources. For that reason, this tree cannot be used for coding of human adverse events reports for submission to regulatory agencies. MedDRA(r) should be licensed from the International Conference on Harmonization for that purpose.'