---
id: "ca_din"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["medical"]
country: ["CA"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ca_din"
---

# Canadian Drug Identification Number (DIN) (`ca_din`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Eight-digit number that Health Canada assigns to a drug product, for human or veterinary use, when it is authorized for sale in Canada. It is printed on the label. The Drug Product Database of Health Canada can be searched by DIN.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Medical/pharma identifiers (medical)
- Countries: Canada (CA)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{8}$
```

## Examples

- `00559393` — Tylenol Regular Strength
- `00425362` — Tylenol No. 1 tablets
- `0055939` (invalid example) — Seven digits

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_identification_number>
- doc: <https://health-products.canada.ca/dpd-bdpp/>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ca_din.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/CA/medical/ca_din.yaml>