Product Licence Number

A Product Licence Number (or PL code for short) is a unique identifier on the packaging of medicines, used to uniquely identify the product.^[1] This code will normally remain the same despite the varying marketing and branding of the companies selling it, this means for example two sets of packaging that look different (say a "big brand" and a shops "own brand") can be easily identified as actually being exactly the same product inside.^[2]

Product Licence Number

Acronym	PL code
Organization	Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency * European Medicines Agency
Example	PL 34985/0004
Website	products.mhra.gov.uk

The code itself is issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency^[3] in the UK and the European Medicines Agency.^[4]