How to read it
Six things worth understanding about a packet of lozenges. Each one is written from the same 1,260 listings the rest of the site is built from, so every figure in them changes when the data does.
The number under the barcode identifies the company, the product and the pack size. Once you can read it, two boxes that look identical stop being identical.
Nobody at FDA approved your cough drops, and that is the intended outcome. Here is the system that replaces approval, and what it does and does not guarantee.
In this dataset, 52 different companies list a lozenge with an identical active ingredient statement. Here is what actually differs between them, and what does not.
One list is regulated to the milligram. The other is where nearly everything you can actually taste comes from.
A hard lozenge has to be made of something, and in most of them that something is a sweetener. What the labels actually say.
The panel on the back of the box is one of the most tightly specified pieces of typography in American regulation. Every line on it is there because a rule requires it.
All six are built from the FDA National Drug Code Directory and FDA drug labels, retrieved 4 September 2026. Sources and limits on the methodology page.