The identification of Shani Merril, the 12-year-old girl who was killed last week in a fire on a ferry boat during a family vacation in Thailand, was completed on Wednesday.
The NDC is a universal number that identifies a drug. The NDC number consists of 11 digits in a 5-4-2 format. The first five digits identify the manufacturer of the drug and are assigned by the Food and Drug Administration.
âNDCâ stands for National Drug Code. It is a unique, 3-segment numeric identifier assigned to each. medication listed under Section 510 of the U.S. Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The first segment. of the NDC identifies the labeler (i.e., the company that manufactures or distributes the drug).