Is there a lookup table where I can find the names of repackaging or drug manufacturing companies with companynumb reported in the field companynumb?
e.g. "companynumb": "200501050"
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Sign up to join this communityAccording to the field-by-field reference page for the drug events API, "companynumb" is a self-assigned identifier. And I don't know of any lookup table that would enable you to decode a "companynumb".
In some cases, "companynumb" includes the name of company, but not in all cases.
See for example: https://api.fda.gov/drug/event.json?count=companynumb.exact
Self assigned identifier
number generated by the FAERS database (Similar to unique key) or companies assigns themselves? If companies assigns the number to themselves, is this number the same for different reports?