UNSPSC 51241875: Ketoconazole/zinc pyrithione

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 DE900. This VA Drug Class (DE900) classifies this compound as belonging to the group DERMATOLOGICALS, TOPICAL OTHER.

UNSPSC 51241875 Ketoconazole/zinc pyrithione is a Commodity code whose recent state and local activity shows little alignment with its nominal scope. The code's abstract title suggests pharmaceutical or personal-care antimicrobial agents, yet the two most recent state and local opportunities tagged under it involve unrelated categories: liquid aluminum sulfate (alum) for wastewater treatment chemistry and medical first-aid supplies for fire rescue operations. Neither opportunity involves ketoconazole or zinc pyrithione products. State and local procurement offices appear to have misclassified these solicitations, indicating that the code does not currently reflect active, correctly tagged demand for the products it nominally covers.

The mismatch between the code's intended scope and the tagged opportunities limits insight into genuine procurement activity for ketoconazole/zinc pyrithione under this code. No recent state and local opportunities for antimicrobial or antifungal products matching the code's name appear in the source material. Business development professionals evaluating this code should verify with issuing bodies directly or review parallel codes in the UNSPSC taxonomy (such as pharmaceutical or personal-care ingredient families) to locate correctly categorized demand, and should monitor whether future opportunities are properly classified under this Commodity code.