All medication products manufactured, packaged, repackaged, or prepackaged shall be labeled in accordance with established formats and procedures. All medication labels will be typed or machine printed and free from erasures and strikeovers.

B. GENERAL PROCEDURES

1. All products used in the hospital shall at a minimum contain the generic name, strength, amount (if not apparent) lot number and expiration time/date of the drug.
2. The metric system should be used.
3. Drugs and chemicals in forms intended for dilution or reconstitution should carry appropriate directions.
4. Labels for sterile solutions should permit visual inspection of the container contents.
5. Except in the case of investigational drugs in coded or blinded studies, numbers, coined names or abbreviations should not be used on a drug label.
6. A container requiring a larger label than the container should have two labels - one small one on the container referring to the larger label on a larger outside carton.
7. Nonproprietary names are to be given prominence over proprietary names.
8. Any drug labeled to be used outside the institution must bear the name , address and phone number of UAMS.
9. Any drug prepackaged in quantity by the pharmacy shall have "UAMS Pharmacy Service" on the label.
10. Any drug manufactured  in quantity by the pharmacy shall have "Cmpd by: UAMS Pharmacy Service" on the label.
11. Any extemporaneously packaged product must also have the initials on the label of the pharmacist who checked the packaging.

1. Only one product is labeled at any one time.

2.  Any preprinted product labels must be secured out of sight until needed for labeling the specific product.

3. All excess labels are destroyed immediately after the labeling operation is completed

4. A pharmacist must approve the label contents and format before labeling.

5. White label stock will be used for internal products and pink label stock for external products.

6.  Oral liquids shall have an assigned color for the printing on the label.   Either black, red, green or blue shall be assigned with consideration of package size and storage location to help prevent mistakes in dispensing.

1. General Format for manufactured or prepackaged products. These labels are printed on plain stock.