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RS ISO 11240: 2012
Health informatics — Identification of medicinal products — Data elements and structures of the unique identification and exchange of units of measurement

Abstract

This International Standard:
— specifies rules for the usage and coded representation of units of measurement for the purpose of exchanging
information about quantitative medicinal product characteristics that require units of measurement (e.g.
strength) in the human medicine domain;
— establishes requirements for units in order to provide traceability to international metrological standards;
— provides rules for the standardized and machine-readable documentation of quantitative composition and
strength of medicinal products, specifically in the context of medicinal product identification;
— defines the requirements for the representation of units of measurement in coded form;
— provides structures and rules for mapping between different unit vocabularies and language translations
to support the implementation of this International Standard, taking into account that existing systems,
dictionaries and repositories use a variety of terms and codes for the representation of units.
The scope of this International Standard is limited to the representation of units of measurement for data
interchange between computer applications.

General Information

Code	Classification	Theme	Pages	Publisher	Availability
RS ISO 11240: 2012	ADOPTED ISO STANDARDS	Chemical technology	55	First Edition Dec 2025	Available