International Drugs Database

**Overview**
This data package contains complete information on all approved, marketed, canceled and dormant products for human, veterinary, disinfectant and radiopharmaceutical use in New Zealand, Germany, United Kingdom (UK) and Canada.

**Description**
The dataset New Zealand Drug Product Database lists all drug products that have been given consent to market in New Zealand by the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (MEDSAFE). Canadian Drugs database contains complete product information for all approved, marketed, canceled and dormant products for human, veterinary, disinfectant and radiopharmaceutical use in the Canadian Drug Product Database (DPD). The data package also contains complete active ingredient information of over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription drugs marketed in the United Kingdom (UK).

**Benefits**
- the data package is useful for finding drug products that are approved by the respective authorities of the uk, germany, canada and new zealand.
- it also provides information about the active ingredients used in the drug products and their approval history.

**License Information**
The use of John Snow Labs datasets is free for personal and research purposes. For commercial use please subscribe to the [Data Library](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/) on John Snow Labs website. The subscription will allow you to use all John Snow Labs datasets and data packages for commercial purposes.

**Included Datasets**
- [Active Ingredient Information in Canadian Drug Product Database](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/active-ingredient-information-in-canadian-drug-product-database)
- This dataset contains complete active ingredient information for all approved, marketed, canceled and dormant products for human, veterinary, disinfectant and radiopharmaceutical use in the Canadian Drug Product Database (DPD) as of September 1, 2017. Before drug products are authorized for sale, Health Canada reviews them to assess their safety, efficacy, and quality. Drug products include prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals, disinfectants and sanitizers with disinfectant claims.
- [New Zealand Drug Product Database](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/new-zealand-drug-product-database)
- The dataset New Zealand Drug Product Database lists all drug products that have been given consent to market in New Zealand by the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority (MEDSAFE).
- [Product Information in Canadian Drug Product Database](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/product-information-in-canadian-drug-product-database)
- This dataset contains complete product information for all approved, marketed, canceled and dormant products for human, veterinary, disinfectant and radiopharmaceutical use in the Canadian Drug Product Database (DPD) as of September 1, 2017. Before drug products are authorized for sale in Canada, Health Canada reviews them to assess the safety, efficacy, and quality. Drug products include prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals, disinfectants and sanitizers with disinfectant claims.

**Data Engineering Overview**
**We deliver high-quality data**
- Each dataset goes through 3 levels of quality review
- 2 Manual reviews are done by domain experts
- Then, an automated set of 60+ validations enforces every datum matches metadata & defined constraints
- Data is normalized into one unified type system
- All dates, unites, codes, currencies look the same
- All null values are normalized to the same value
- All dataset and field names are SQL and Hive compliant
- Data and Metadata
- Data is available in both CSV and Apache Parquet format, optimized for high read performance on distributed Hadoop, Spark & MPP clusters
- Metadata is provided in the open Frictionless Data standard, and its every field is normalized & validated
- Data Updates
- Data updates support replace-on-update: outdated foreign keys are deprecated, not deleted

**Our data is curated and enriched by domain experts**

Each dataset is manually curated by our team of doctors, pharmacists, public health & medical billing experts:
- Field names, descriptions, and normalized values are chosen by people who actually understand their meaning
- Healthcare & life science experts add categories, search keywords, descriptions and more to each dataset
- Both manual and automated data enrichment supported for clinical codes, providers, drugs, and geo-locations
- The data is always kept up to date – even when the source requires manual effort to get updates
- Support for data subscribers is provided directly by the domain experts who curated the data sets
- Every data source’s license is manually verified to allow for royalty-free commercial use and redistribution.

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