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Calcium carbonate 500 MG Chewable Tablet [Tums] — RxCUI 210117

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic branded drug
RxCUI 210117 Semantic branded drug · SBD ● Current RxNorm concept 3 FDA products 6 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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What you’re looking at: the standardized identity of one medicine, as the U.S. drug-data system sees it. Below — every FDA-listed product, package code, price benchmark, and billing code that maps to it.

🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI210117
Official nameCalcium carbonate 500 MG Chewable Tablet [Tums]
Concept typeSemantic branded drug (SBD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asTums Freshers 500 MG Chewable Tablet; Tums 500 MG (Ca 200 MG) Chewable Tablet; Tums 500 MG (as calcium 200 MG) Chewable Tablet
FDA products mapped3
Package NDCs mapped6
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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Our pharmacist-built guide to Calcium Carbonate: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

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  • Most often it's an antacid. It relieves heartburn, acid indigestion, sour stomach and upset stomach tied to those symptoms. A few supplement products have other uses, like bone sup...
  • What is calcium carbonate usually used for?
  • You chew it when symptoms come on. Many labels say to chew or crush the tablets completely and not swallow them whole. The number of tablets varies by product, so read your label o...
  • Many labels say not to use the maximum dose for more than 2 weeks unless a doctor is supervising you. If your symptoms last longer than 2 weeks, check in with your doctor.
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🕸️ Concept Web — How Calcium carbonate 500 MG Chewable Tablet [Tums] Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept Calcium carbonate 500 MG Chewable Tablet [Tums] RxCUI 210117

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 1

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Calcium carbonate 1897
  2. Brand names 1

    The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.

    • Tums 220508
  3. Dose forms 12

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Calcium carbonate Chewable Tablet 371198
    • Calcium carbonate Chewable Product 1294990
    • Calcium carbonate Oral Product 1154144
    • Calcium carbonate Pill 1154145
    • Calcium carbonate Chewable Tablet [Tums] 369632
    • Tums Chewable Product 1296129
    • Tums Oral Product 1176894
    • Tums Pill 1176895
    • +4 more in this family
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 13 of 17 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

  • Calcium carbonate 500 MG Chewable Tablet SCD · 308907
  • Calcium carbonate 500 MG SCDC · 315541
  • Calcium carbonate Chewable Tablet SCDF · 371198
  • Calcium carbonate Chewable Product SCDG · 1294990
  • Calcium carbonate Oral Product SCDG · 1154144
  • Calcium carbonate Pill SCDG · 1154145

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Calcium carbonate 500 MG [Tums] SBDC · 570664
  • Calcium carbonate Chewable Tablet [Tums] SBDF · 369632
  • Tums Chewable Product SBDG · 1296129
  • Tums Oral Product SBDG · 1176894
  • Tums Pill SBDG · 1176895
  • Tums BN · 220508

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

3 products · 6 package NDCs
6 package NDCs map to RxCUI 210117 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
00135-0070-03 3 PACKAGE in 1 CELLO PACK (0135-0070-03) / 12 TABLET in 1 P... TUMS Haleon US Holdings LLC 2010-03-10
00135-0070-27 150 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0135-0070-27) TUMS Haleon US Holdings LLC 2010-03-10
00135-0070-48 12 TABLET in 1 PACKAGE (0135-0070-48) TUMS Haleon US Holdings LLC 2010-03-10
00135-0071-27 150 TABLET in 1 BOTTLE (0135-0071-27) TUMS Haleon US Holdings LLC 2010-03-10
00135-0071-48 12 TABLET in 1 PACKAGE (0135-0071-48) TUMS Haleon US Holdings LLC 2010-03-10
00135-0611-01 150 TABLET, CHEWABLE in 1 BOTTLE (0135-0611-01) Tums Regular Strength Haleon US Holdings LLC 2016-09-01
Observed labelers: Haleon US Holdings LLC (6) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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