appears_in:
- vo
contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: "A Product Code Number (PCN) assigned by the Animal and Plant Health\
  \ Inspection Service (APHIS)'s Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) to veterinary\
  \ biological products such as vaccines, bacterins, antibodies, diagnostic products,\
  \ antitoxins, bacterin-toxoids, and toxioids approved for veterinary use by the\
  \ United States Department of Agriculture Veterinary (USDA). A quarterly release,\
  \ as PDF, can be found [here](https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/currentprodcodebook.pdf).\n\
  \n The PDF document states (verbatim): The alphanumeric system used for product\
  \ codes provides for a six-digit number of number-letter combination to be assigned\
  \ to each product, i.e., the first digit denotes product types; second and third,\
  \ group by agents; fourth, the viability of vaccine, (live, killed, modified live,\
  \ etc.); fifth, substrates; and sixth, miscellaneous variables"
example: '1011.00'
example_extras:
- 10T1.40
- 19O5.D0
- 1K11.00
- GA94.00
homepage: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/veterinary-biologics/licensed-products
keywords:
- antitoxin
- bacterin
- bacterin-toxoid
- diagnostic product
- toxoid
- vaccine
mappings: {}
name: United States Department of Agriculture Veterinary Biological Product Code Number
owners:
- name: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  partnered: false
  ror: 0599wfz09
pattern: ^[A-Z0-9]{4}\.[A-Z0-9]{2}$
preferred_prefix: usda.cvb.pcn
prefix: usda.cvb.pcn
providers: []
publications: []
references:
- https://www.aphis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/currentprodcodebook.pdf
- https://www.aphis.usda.gov/veterinary-biologics
synonyms: []
