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Datatypes

German pharmacy product number (Pharmazentralnummer, PZN)

ID de_pzn

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Pharmazentralnummer (PZN), the number that the Informationsstelle für Arzneispezialitäten (IFA) assigns to each pack of a medicine, medical device or other pharmacy product sold in Germany; a different pack size gets a different number. Since 2013 it has eight digits: seven digits and a check digit, the sum of the first seven weighted 1 to 7 modulo 11 (a result of 10 is never issued). The seven-digit numbers issued before were kept with a leading 0. Packs show it as PZN-12345678 next to a Code 39 barcode.

Categories
Medical/pharma identifiers
Countries
Germany
Languages
Common to most languages
Check digit
de_pzn
Quality
80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
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Supported by tools
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Regular expression

^(?:PZN[- ]?)?\d{7,8}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
27580899Example of the IFA coding rules
PZN-27580899The same number as printed on a pack
12571417Synthetic number with a valid check digit
27580898 invalidCheck digit does not match
275808991 invalidNine digits

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
GermanPharmazentralnummer (PZN)
RussianФармацевтический центральный номер Германии (PZN)Номер упаковки лекарства или другого аптечного товара в Германии, который присваивает IFA, - семь цифр и контрольная цифра (сумма первых семи цифр с весами 1-7 по модулю 11).

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