Product Licence Number
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Short description: Identifier on the packaging of medicines
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| Acronym | PL code |
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| Example | PL 34985/0004 |
| Website | products |
A Product Licence Number (or PL code for short) is a unique identifier on the packaging of medicines, used to uniquely identify the product.[1] This code will normally remain the same despite the varying marketing and branding of the companies selling it, this means for example two sets of packaging that look different (say a "big brand" and a shops "own brand") can be easily identified as actually being exactly the same product inside.[2]
The code itself is issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency[3] in the UK and the European Medicines Agency.[4]
References
- ↑ "What's in a product licence number?". Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin 18 (15): 60. 1980-07-18. ISSN 0012-6543. PMID 7408636.
- ↑ "Martin Lewis: A drugs bust - stop letting big pharmaceuticals rip you off!" (in en-GB). MoneySavingExpert.com. https://blog.moneysavingexpert.com/2018/07/martin-lewis--a-drugs-bust-up---stop-letting-big-pharmaceuticals/.
- ↑ "Marketing authorisations: lists of granted licences" (in en). GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/marketing-authorisations-lists-of-granted-licences.
- ↑ "Product Licences - UK MHRA, MCA and EMA | MPA Business Services" (in en). http://mpasearch.co.uk/product-licences.
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