7003

7003 Expiration Date and Time

Application Identifier 7003 specifies an expiration date and time.

The manufacturer determines the expiration date and time. Indicated for products with a very short life and for products that do not need to be transported far and do not need to be transported outside a time zone.

A typical application of AI 7003 is in hospitals or pharmacies, where there are products made for a single patient that have a lifespan of less than one day.

The service life of the product depends on the pharmaceutical substances used in the treatment. The exact expiration date is established at the end of the manufacturing process. AI 7003 must always be entered together with AI 01 (GTIN).

If there is no requirement to set the expiry date to the nearest hour (or less), AI 17 - Expiration Date should be used.

The structure is:

• Year: e.g. 2007 = 07, that is mandatory.
• Month: eg January = 01, that is mandatory.
• Day: e.g. second day = 02, which is mandatory.
• Hour: the number of hours based on local 24-hour time (e.g. 2 PM = 14) that is mandatory.
• Minutes: the number of minutes based on local time (e.g., 15 minutes = 15). If it is not necessary to clarify minutes, then the field should be filled with two zeros. The time will then be interpreted as the expiry time of hour (e.g. 14:00 = expiry time of 14:00).
  

Example:

On June 02, 2024 at 3:30 p.m., be given as 2406021530.