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NACE 21.10: Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products

NACE Rev. 2.1 class. Replaces NACE Rev. 2 21.10. Closest ISIC Rev. 4: 2100.

NACE Rev. 2.1 class 21.10 is "Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products". It sits in section C (MANUFACTURING), then division 21 (Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations), then group 21.1 (Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products). In the previous classification, NACE Rev. 2, the activity was covered by 21.10 (Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products).

What the class includes

This class includes: - manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients to be used for their pharmacological properties in the manufacture of medical products (e.g. antibiotics, basic vitamins, salicylic and O-acetylsalicylic acids) - processing of blood

What it excludes

This class excludes: - manufacture of advance cell and gene therapy pharmaceutical preparations, see 21.20

Correspondence with NACE Rev. 2

NACE Rev. 2Label (Rev. 2)Also maps to
21.10Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products-

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Official classification texts from EU Vocabularies (Publications Office of the European Union, CC BY 4.0), read on 2026-10-05. Correspondence tables link classes that cover the same activities; one old class can be split across several new ones, so check the notes before you convert a dataset. Information only.