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Proposed change to FSN without inactivation of the concept

Non-Conformance to Editorial Policy: Update of FSN to comply with Editorial Guidance: The use of "and" which has the implied meaning of "and/or"

Editorial guidance on conjunction and disjunction states that the use of "and" in structural groupers has an implied meaning of "and/or" and therefore the FSN is to be updated to make the inclusive disjunction implicit with the use of "and/or". While this technically represents a change in meaning, as this is both a structural grouper and with the agreement of the community of practice, change of the FSN alone is supported.

  • Concept
    t767270007 |Iron and iron compound (substance)|
  • Inactivate the FSN as "Non-conformance to Editorial Policy":
  • Replace the FSN with: "Iron and/or iron compound (substance)"
  • Annotation:
    Briefing note for MF June 2021, Link to Editorial Guidance - Conjunction and Disjunction 

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Resolving sequences of Historical Associations

The intention is that

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functionality to resolve sequences of Historical Associations will normally be seamlessly integrated into the tooling so as to present to the user the appropriate updated historically association to be allocated.

Whenever an already stated “REPLACED_BY” target itself also becomes inactive - whether at the same release or later, identifying the replacement for the original concept, should follow the combinatorial logic stated below.

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