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100 ML metronidazole 5 MG/ML Injection — RxCUI 311683

Name: 100 ML metronidazole 5 MG/ML Injection (RxCUI 311683)
Creator: Brian Staiger, PharmD

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug

RxCUI 311683 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 11 FDA products 11 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

This page is curated, coded, and maintained by Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD

Compiled from public NLM RxNorm and FDA (openFDA NDC directory) data sources. Editorial policy

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

RxCUI311683

Official name100 ML metronidazole 5 MG/ML Injection

Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)

RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept

Also known asmetronidazole 500 MG per 100 ML Injection; metroNIDAZOLE 500 MG in 100 ML Injection

FDA products mapped11

Package NDCs mapped11

Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)27,056 prescriptions · 43 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025

RxNorm release07/06/2026

Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How 100 ML metronidazole 5 MG/ML Injection 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 100 ML metronidazole 5 MG/ML Injection RxCUI 311683 Semantic clinical drug · SCD

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

Ingredients 1

The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.
- Metronidazole 6922 IN
Dose forms 4

The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.
- Metronidazole Injection 1863330 SCDF
- Metronidazole Injectable Product 1164081 SCDG
- Injection 1649574 DF
- Injectable Product 1151126 DFG
Clinical & branded drugs 1

Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.
- Metronidazole 5 MG/ML 316302 SCDC

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 6 of 6 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

Metronidazole 5 MG/ML SCDC · 316302
Metronidazole Injection SCDF · 1863330
Metronidazole Injectable Product SCDG · 1164081

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

11 products · 11 package NDCs

11 package NDCs map to RxCUI 311683 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
00264-5535-32	6 CARTON in 1 CASE (0264-5535-32) / 4 CONTAINER in 1 CARTON...	METRONIDAZOLE	B. Braun Medical Inc.	1983-09-29
00338-1055-48	24 BAG in 1 CARTON (0338-1055-48) / 100 mL in 1 BAG	Metronidazole	Baxter Healthcare Corporation	1981-12-24
00338-9541-24	24 BAG in 1 CARTON (0338-9541-24) / 100 mL in 1 BAG	Metronidazole	Baxter Healthcare Corporation	1981-12-24
00404-9991-00	1 BAG in 1 BAG (0404-9991-00) / 100 mL in 1 BAG	METRONIDAZOLE	Henry Schein, Inc.	2023-02-24
00409-0152-24	24 POUCH in 1 CARTON (0409-0152-24) / 1 BAG in 1 POUCH (040...	Metronidazole	Hospira, Inc.	2021-12-13
25021-0131-82	24 POUCH in 1 CARTON (25021-131-82) / 1 BAG in 1 POUCH / 10...	Metronidazole	Sagent Pharmaceuticals	2009-11-15
44567-0750-24	24 POUCH in 1 CARTON (44567-750-24) / 1 BAG in 1 POUCH (445...	Metronidazole	WG Critical Care, LLC	2025-01-31
47335-0993-01	1 BAG in 1 POUCH (47335-993-01) / 100 mL in 1 BAG	METRONIDAZOLE	Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc.	2021-08-10
68083-0373-04	4 POUCH in 1 CARTON (68083-373-04) / 1 BAG in 1 POUCH (6808...	Metronidazole	Gland Pharma Limited	2020-08-03
72572-0540-24	24 BAG in 1 CARTON (72572-540-24) / 100 mL in 1 BAG	Metronidazole	Civica, Inc.	2025-11-13
80830-2465-09	24 POUCH in 1 CARTON (80830-2465-9) / 1 BAG in 1 POUCH (808...	Metronidazole	Amneal Pharmaceuticals Private Limited	2023-06-17

Observed labelers: Baxter Healthcare Corporation (2) · Amneal Pharmaceuticals Private Limited (1) · B. Braun Medical Inc. (1) · Civica, Inc. (1) · Gland Pharma Limited (1) · Henry Schein, Inc. (1) · +4 more — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🧾 Billing Codes (HCPCS)

Medical billing codes (HCPCS "J-codes") that connect to this concept's packages — used mostly when a clinic or hospital bills for a drug it administers. Each code links to its full billing page.

Code	Descriptor	Mapped packages	Sources
J1836	Inj, metronidazole, 10 mg	8	CMS

⚠ A crosswalk is not coverage: an NDC↔HCPCS mapping does not guarantee any payer covers or pays the code. Always verify the current payer policy before billing.

🗃️ 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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