The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that the National Drug Code (NDC) system will shift to a uniform 12-digit format, replacing the current 10-digit structure used to identify medicines in the United States. The change is intended to standardise drug identification across the pharmaceutical supply chain and ensure the system can support future growth in the number of approved products. Under the new rule, all FDA-assigned NDC numbers for human and animal medicines will be converted t ...