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Public sources worth keeping open

These links do different jobs. Use a licence tool for a person, a pharmacy board for a pharmacy and an FDA record for a medicine.

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Start with the record that matches the exact medicine and use.
People and places

Records for clinicians and pharmacies

State boards hold the final public licence record. National directories are useful doorways to those state pages.

Products and claims

Records for medicines and marketing

The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, keeps product records, consumer pages and a searchable warning-letter database. A warning letter records the agency’s concern on the date it was sent; it is not a final court decision.

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