The National Drug Code (NDC) is a unique, three-segment number used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to identify drug products for commercial use. This is required by the Drug Listing Act of 1972. The FDA publishes and updates the listed NDC numbers daily.

Prefix

ndc

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in National Drug Code should match this regular expression:
^\d+\-\d+\-\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0002-1975-61   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from National Drug Code should match this regular expression:
^ndc:\d+\-\d+\-\d+$

Example CURIE

ndc:0002-1975-61

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

FHIR External Terminologies

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0002-1975-61 is used to demonstrate the providers available for National Drug Code. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.