Drug Master File or DMF is a document prepared by a manufacturer in the pharmaceutical industry and submitted solely at his discretion to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). There is no requirement by law or FDA regulation to present a DMF. The document may be used to provide confidential detailed information about facilities, processes, or articles used in the manufacturing, processing, packaging, and storing of one or more human drugs
A database file, often created manually as needed, that contains static records used to identify items, customers, vendors, bills of material, work centers, etc as opposed to files used to track the dynamic status of orders and inventory balances