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The documentation describes the data fields.

The FDA offers many helpful, additional resources such as the following:

The complete FDA Product Classification database is offered here in SAS, Stata, and CSV formats to make the whole database a bit easier to use.

Limited historic files are available in the CCYY/CCYYMMDD folders where CCYY is the year and CCYYMMDD is the day.

Updates and changes.

Source Data File

Product Classification

Source

Stata

Stata 244

SAS

CSV

Desc

foiclass.zip

txt

dta

dta

sas7bdat

csv

desc

Pre-Stata13 had a string length limit of 244 characters.

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