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.
NDC means National Drug Code. The National Drug Code is a unique ten-digit number and serves as a product identifier for human drugs in commercial distribution. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assigns the first five digits (known as the labeler code) and the registrant assigns the last five digits (known as the product and package codes). The assignment of an NDC number does not denote approval of the product by the FDA. In fact, the assignment of an NDC number just represents the registration of a product for commercial distribution. Each drug product is assigned a unique 10-digit, 3-segment number.