UNSPSC 51172405: Alginic acid/calcium carbonate/magnesium trisilicate/sodium bica

This classification denotes a combination drug defined by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in its (VA's) National Drug File (NDF), which falls under VA Drug Class GA199. This VA Drug Class (GA199) classifies this compound as belonging to the group ANTACIDS, OTHER.

UNSPSC 51172405 Alginic acid/calcium carbonate/magnesium trisilicate/sodium bicarbonate (Commodity) shows little relevant recent activity under state and local procurement. The code nominally classifies antacid and gastrointestinal medicinal compounds, but the single recent opportunity tagged to this code — Collin County Community Supervision and Corrections Department's RFP 2026-327 for offender specimen collection and drug testing services — bears no relationship to the code's pharmaceutical scope. The county is soliciting staffing, laboratory analysis, and testing infrastructure for criminal justice community supervision, not medicinal chemical products. The mismatch suggests either a data-classification error in the opportunity posting or that this Commodity code does not reflect active state and local procurement demand for the compounds it nominally covers.

No concrete evidence of ongoing state and local purchasing under the intended scope of UNSPSC 51172405 appears in the available recent-opportunities record. Procurement professionals evaluating this code should verify whether antacid compounds and related digestive medications are being procured separately under different UNSPSC classifications or through cooperative purchasing vehicles that do not generate individual opportunity postings in the source dataset.