WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Food and Drug Administration has issued a rule called: Revising the National Drug Code Format and Drug Label Barcode Requirements.
The rule was published in the Federal Register on March 5 by Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
Summary: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is issuing a final rule to standardize the format of the National Drug Code (NDC). Under this final rule, all FDA-assigned NDCs will be required to be 12 digits in length with 3 distinct segments and 1 uniform format. The first segment is a 6-digit labeler code, the second segment is a 4-digit product code, and the third segment is a 2-digit package code. Additionally, we are revising the dru...