DailyMed is a website operated by the

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(NLM) to publish up-to-date and accurate drug labels (also called a "

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") to health care providers and the general public. The contents of DailyMed is provided and updated daily by the

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(FDA). The FDA in turn collects this information from the pharmaceutical industry. The documents published use the

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version 3 Structured Product Labeling (SPL) standard, which is an

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format that combines the human readable text of the product label with structured data elements that describe the composition, form, packaging, and other properties of the drug products in detail according to the

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(RIM). , it contained information about 140,232 drug listings. It includes an

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for updated drug information.

History

In 2006 the FDA revised the drug label and also created DailyMed to keep prescription information up to date.

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