How to identify the exact Dextabs product from its label

A label record is not one fact but a set of identifiers. This page names the ones that pin down one dextromethorphan hydrobromide product, so a reader can tell whether a page, a pharmacy record and a package are describing the same thing.

The identifiers on this record

The label prints the product name Dextabs ¹ and names DXM Pharmacuetical, Inc. as the labeler, spelled that way in the source ². The dosage form is TABLET 3.

Four fields do the work of telling two records apart:

• Set id 71b567df-844a-4563-b85a-f4592233f37d is the stable identity of the label record, not of one bottle ⁴.
• Version 2 is the revision of the text you are reading; a later version of the same set id is a later revision, not a different record ⁵.
• Effective date 2025-10-06 is the date carried by this revision ⁶.
• Package code 71598-152-00 is the three-segment package identifier the label carries ⁷. The DailyMed record prints the shorter two-segment item code NDC:71598-152, which the package code extends ⁸.

The label's active-ingredient field lists DEXTROMETHORPHAN HYDROBROMIDE 9, and the same label carries three inactive-ingredient entries, so one active ingredient is not the same statement as one ingredient ¹⁰.

Finding the product name

The label prints Dextabs 1, while the brand's own shop returns results for the search phrase DexTabs — two product results for that phrase on 2026-09-29 ¹¹. A search box is not the label, so when the spelling matters, compare the label field and the package code rather than a caption.

What an NDC does and does not mean

The package code is a National Drug Code. FDA describes drugs as identified by a unique, three-segment number called the NDC, which serves as the agency's identifier for drugs ¹².

FDA states three limits on that identifier, and they matter when a reader sees a number quoted as if it settled something. Assignment of an NDC number does not denote FDA approval of the product ¹³. Inclusion in the NDC Directory does not indicate that FDA verified the information or that the products are FDA-approved ¹⁴. And inclusion does not mean a product is covered or reimbursable by Medicare, Medicaid or another payer ¹⁵.

FDA also states who owns the entry: the labeler that submitted the SPL file is responsible for its content ¹⁶.

Who the public record says is responsible

The DailyMed record for this product prints the responsible party as Packager: DXM Pharmacuetical, Inc. 17, describes the product type as HUMAN OTC DRUG LABEL 18, and is titled DailyMed - DEXTABS- dextromethorphan hydrobromide tablet 19.

DailyMed describes the text it carries as in-use labeling submitted by companies ²⁰, and states that the contents may not have been verified by FDA and that NLM does not review SPL content before publication ²¹.

Reading the rest of the label

This is a nonprescription product, so its labeling is Drug Facts, which DailyMed describes as carrying the drug's purpose, warnings, directions for use and other information ²². The captured file carries those sections, including an Inactive ingredients heading alongside its active ingredient, purpose, uses, warning and other-information headings ²³.

Those sections are not reproduced here. They are the part of a label to read in full, in the original.

Checking these identifiers

If a page, a pharmacy record and a package are meant to describe the same product, the three things worth comparing are the package code ^{7 8}, the set id and version of the text being read ^{4 5}, and the effective date ⁶.

When those fields do not line up, check which record and revision each source describes before deciding whether either is wrong.

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RR Editorial, Dextromethorphan Answers. Every statement above is bound to a cited source. Clinical questions about using a medicine belong with a prescriber or pharmacist; this page identifies a label record.