Health Canada Releases Updated Drug Product Database Data Extract
Summary
Health Canada has updated the Drug Product Database (DPD) data extract with new files as of April 1, 2026. The data extract comprises compressed UTF-8 text files totaling approximately 117 MB uncompressed, containing complete product information for approved, marketed, cancelled, and dormant products for human, veterinary, disinfectant, and radiopharmaceutical use. Users including third-party claims adjudicators, provincial formularies, and insurance companies can download the files, which include biosimilar, company, drug product, form, ingredient, packaging, pharmaceutical standard, route, schedule, status, therapeutic class, and veterinary species data.
“The data extract is a series of compressed UTF-8 text files of the database. The uncompressed size of the files is approximately 117 MB.”
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What changed
Health Canada has published updated data extract files for the Drug Product Database (DPD), with all primary and derivative files dated April 1, 2026. The extract contains complete product information organized by category: approved products, marketed products, inactive products, and dormant products, covering human, veterinary, disinfectant, and radiopharmaceutical categories.\n\nAffected parties such as third-party claims adjudicators, provincial formularies, insurance companies, and other healthcare information system operators should download the updated files to maintain current drug product reference data. The files require loading into an existing database or information system, and users must be familiar with database structure to utilize the data effectively. A mailing list subscription is available at osip.sys-bppi@hc-sc.gc.ca for notifications of future changes to the DPD data extracts.
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Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD) data extract
The data extract is a series of compressed UTF-8 text files of the database. The uncompressed size of the files is approximately 117 MB. In order to utilize the data, the file must be loaded into an existing database or information system. The typical user is most likely a third party claims adjudicator, provincial formulary, insurance company, etc. For a casual user to use this file, they must be familiar with database structure and capable of setting up their own queries. The "Read me" file contains the data structure required to download the zipped files.
The DPD extract files contain complete product information for all approved (filenameap.zip), marketed (filename.zip), cancelled (filenameia.zip) and dormant (filename_dr.zip) products, for human, veterinary, disinfectant and radiopharmaceutical use.
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| Name | New Files (UTF-8 format)
Filename | Last Updated |
| --- | --- | --- |
| QRYM_BIOSIMILARS | bios.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| bios_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| bios_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| bios_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYM_COMPANIES | comp.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| comp_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| comp_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| comp_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYMDRUGPRODUCT | drug.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| drug_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| drug_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| drug_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYM_FORM | form.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| form_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| form_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| form_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYMACTIVEINGREDIENTS | ingred.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| ingred_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| ingred_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| ingred_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYMINACTIVEPRODUCTS | inactive.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| QRYM_PACKAGING | package.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| package_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| package_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| package_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYMPHARMACEUTICALSTD | pharm.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| pharm_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| pharm_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| pharm_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYM_ROUTE | route.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| route_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| route_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| route_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYM_SCHEDULE | schedule.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| schedule_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| schedule_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| schedule_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYM_STATUS | status.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| status_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| status_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| status_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYMTHERAPEUTICCLASS | ther.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| ther_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| ther_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| ther_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| QRYMVETERINARYSPECIES | vet.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| vet_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| vet_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| vet_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| ALL FILES | allfiles.zip | 2026-04-01 |
| allfiles_ia.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| allfiles_ap.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
| allfiles_dr.zip | 2026-04-01 | |
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