NDC COORDINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION FORUM
For Animal Health Manufacturers
The human Rx industry is already planning this transition. Animal health isn't in the room yet.
FDA's 12-digit NDC mandate applies to veterinary drugs too, but nearly every readiness conversation happening right now is built around human pharmacy workflows. The NDC Forum is where animal health manufacturers get a direct seat in cross-sector planning, before decisions get made without you.
The Challenge
Animal health has its own distribution channels, its own regulatory pathway through FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, and its own operational realities, but NDC-12 planning is happening largely through a human-pharmacy lens. Absent direct engagement, the standards, timelines, and testing approaches that get built will be built around Rx workflows, and animal health manufacturers will be left adapting to decisions made without them.
Veterinary distribution channels and trading partners have different systems and different constraints than human pharmacy
Data management and labeling workflows built for Rx assumptions may not fit animal health cleanly
Standards conversations move fast; if animal health isn't represented early, it's represented late, or not at all
How the Forum Helps
Ensure the veterinary perspective is actually in the room when cross-sector decisions get made, not retrofitted afterward.
Stay current on implementation planning as it develops, instead of learning about decisions after they're finalized.
Understand how broader industry choices will affect animal health products specifically, before you have to react to them.
Connect with veterinary distribution and care-delivery stakeholders already engaging with the forum.
Even the Compliance Vendors Are Treating This as an Afterthought
Look closely at the regulatory-support services already marketing NDC-12 readiness, and animal health shows up, at best, as a passing mention inside a broader human-drug service listing, never as a distinct, addressed audience with its own concerns.
That's not a research gap. It's confirmation of the exact risk this page opened with: absent direct engagement, animal health gets folded into planning built for someone else.
No vendor, consultancy, or standards body currently active in this space is speaking to veterinary manufacturers as a distinct stakeholder group.
The Forum is one of the only places actively building a seat for animal health into this conversation, not folding it into someone else's plan.
Animal health has a seat at this table, but only if you take it. The easiest way to find out if it's worth claiming: attend a forum and see who's already talking.
Get Involved
Organizational Membership
Annual Membership
$5,000
per organization
Unlimited participants from your organization
Access to all quarterly forums, strike forces, and other events
Full access to tools, outputs, and shared resources
Per-Participant Access
Virtual
Quarterly Forums
$399
per person
In-Person
Forums
TBD
per person
Attend quarterly forums on a per-person basis, ideal for organizations exploring participation before committing to full membership.
2026 Forum Dates:
September 23
December 8-9
Strike force participation available to organizational members only.