Colombian Over-the-Counter Drug Registry with Active Ingredients and Forms

LISTADO DE MEDICAMENTOS EN VENTA LIBRE is a dataset from www.datos.gov.co listing medications that do not require a medical prescription for over-the-counter sale. The data includes the active ingredient, concentration, and pharmaceutical form for each listed drug. The dataset was last updated on 2026-03-04 17:27:16.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of active ingredients (principioactivo) available without a prescription.
• Categorize over-the-counter drugs by their pharmaceutical form (formafarmaceutica) for market analysis.
• Compare drug concentrations (concentracion) across different active ingredients for regulatory review.

Strengths

• Data is structured with three clear columns: principioactivo, concentracion, and formafarmaceutica.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 17:27:16; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia