Regulatory Blog

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule titled “ Revising the National Drug Code Format and Drug Label Barcode Requirements .”  This rule introduces a uniform 12-digit National Drug Code (NDC) format  to standardize how drugs marketed in the United States are identified. The National Drug Code is an FDA standard used to uniquely identify drug products marketed in the U.S. Currently, the NDC assigned by FDA is a 10-digit number , and it may appear i