Inactive Ingredients File for Downloading

You can download the Inactive Ingredients file as either a self-extracting or zipped file.  The files are tilde (~) delimited text files.  The size of the unzipped files is approximately 650 KB.

We update the database quarterly, by the tenth working day of April, July, October, and January.

Select a link to begin downloading:

IIGZIP.EXE (self-extracting)  (165 KB)

IIGZIP.ZIP (95 KB)

Data through October 3, 2008.

The data file contains six fields (columns):

1. Inactive Ingredient
2. Route; Dosage Form
3. CAS Number
4. UNII
5. Maximum Potency Amount
6. Potency Unit

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Date created: December 20, 2005, Last updated: October 6, 2008

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