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    • POCA -Phonetic Orthographic Computer Algorithm

    Metadata Updated: July 11, 2025

    POCA is a software that produces a data set used internally to assess the safety, and feasibility of proposed proprietary drug names. FDA product name safety evaluators have access to an internal version of the POCA system behind the FDA firewall. Source code to develop external non-FDA instances of POCA are available at http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Industry/ucm400127.htm

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 11, 2025

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    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 11, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Food and Drug Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier 78e2c44a-948a-4f20-a810-6f1e60cee0d1
    Data First Published 2021-02-25
    Data Last Modified 2014-09-22
    Category FDA
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:10
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 43776e85-cefb-4d09-9034-c4ba4a38a245
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/d/fztk-4izv
    License http://opendefinition.org/licenses/odc-odbl/
    Program Code 009:002
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 871991fe87296c2b874005c6d28ae49827353d993e97f313d0b198ef7473568f
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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