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ATC code P03

therapeutic subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System: Ectoparasiticides, including scabicides, insecticides and repellents

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ434239 ↗
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ATC code P03 Ectoparasiticides, including scabicides, insecticides and repellents is a therapeutic subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System, a system of alphanumeric codes developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the classification of drugs and other medical products. Subgroup P03 is part of the anatomical group P Antiparasitic products, insecticides and repellents.

National versions of the ATC classification may include additional codes not present in this list, which follows the WHO version.

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“ATC code P03” enters the record as therapeutic subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System: Ectoparasiticides, including scabicides, insecticides and repellents. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what code, therapeutic and subgroup can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current 75-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around code, therapeutic and subgroup.
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This entry incorporates text from “ATC code P03” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.