
With a 7-year target date, the FDA is moving away from 10-digit NDCs and toward a universal 12-digit format.
Matt Sample, senior vice president of manufacturer, quality, and replenishment operations at Cencora

With a 7-year target date, the FDA is moving away from 10-digit NDCs and toward a universal 12-digit format.

In part 2, Neal Cooper and Matt Sample address the foreseeable challenges and necessary questions surrounding the FDA’s push toward 12-digit national drug codes.

Matt Sample and Neal Cooper join to discuss the beginning stages of the FDA’s 7-year rollout of new NDCs for prescription drugs.

With a key exemption under DSCSA expiring at the end of the year, Matt Sample from Cencora helps pharmacies understand the tools and processes they need now to best comply with the law.

Matt Sample from Cencora discusses current DSCSA developments on the rise for pharmacy businesses in 2026—namely small dispensers that have been under exemption.