Frequently asked questions

ExciIQ makes the inactive ingredients in every FDA-labeled human medication visible, comparable, and searchable. Look up any excipient and get a working reference card: identifiers, functions, cautions, and which products contain it. Search medications by name or NDC. Identify pills by imprint, color, and shape.

ExciIQ is built for licensed physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and registered dietitians. Pharmacists in compounding, community, and hospital practice are welcome. So are allergists, immunologists, and physicians in any specialty caring for patients with sensitivities. Built for clinicians who own the workup.

FDA requires a generic drug to have the same active ingredient, strength, dosage form, and route of administration as its brand-name drug. FDA allows small differences between products made by different companies, such as in certain inactive ingredients. The same drug can carry different excipients by manufacturer and even by strength. Each medicine’s FDA label lists its inactive ingredients. ExciIQ keeps its analysis at the level of the specific product in the bottle.

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Built on public FDA drug labeling (SPL/DailyMed) for licensed medical and pharmaceutical professionals. If the FDA labels it for people, ExciIQ covers it. ExciIQ checks DailyMed for new and updated labels every week. In ExciIQ, “current FDA label” means the newest version ExciIQ has loaded from DailyMed. ExciIQ’s dietary supplement labels come from a separate source: National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. Dietary Supplement Label Database, 2026. https://dsld.od.nih.gov/.

Yes. ExciIQ carries dietary supplement labels from the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD), kept separate from FDA drug labels. Look up an excipient to see which supplements list it, shown apart from the medications that contain it.

Label information as transcribed by the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD). Dietary supplements are not reviewed by FDA for safety or effectiveness before they are sold.

ExciIQ holds no patient-identifying data, by architecture, not policy. A regimen workspace in ExciIQ is identified by a memorable session code, a gender, and a birth year, shown as an age. That is the complete list. There are no patient names, no dates of birth, no addresses, no record numbers. What was never collected can never be breached.

“Can’t confirm” means ExciIQ cannot confirm whether an equivalent avoids the excipients you selected. ExciIQ checks commercial equivalents against the excipients you choose to avoid. Each one gets one of three honest verdicts: avoids the selected excipients per the current FDA label, contains one, or can’t confirm. When ExciIQ can’t confirm, it says so. A missing flag is never presented as an all-clear.

ExciIQ marks ingredients made from wheat. These include wheat starch, wheat gluten, wheat bran, and wheat germ oil. When a label lists a starch without saying what it’s made from, ExciIQ shows it just as the label names it. A missing flag is never presented as an all-clear.

A drug label states its inactive ingredients twice: once as a coded list, once in the written text. Of FDA’s six automated checks specific to the coded list, none compares it with the ingredients the text names. A drug’s coded ingredient list and its written label text don’t always agree. ExciIQ shows you the difference side by side, in plain language, so the discrepancy informs your decision instead of undermining it.

FDA, SPL Implementation Guide with Validation Procedures, December 2023

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In Friend or Foe, you sort a patient’s medications into tolerated Friends and reaction-associated Foes. ExciIQ turns that sort into a list of suspect excipients and flags the Top Suspects among them. That is a shortlist to carry into your workup, not a verdict. Save the workup and pick it up where you left off.

No. Professional use only — not for patient diagnosis or treatment decisions. For licensed, certified, or registered healthcare professionals. Supports — does not replace — professional judgment. Not for time-critical use. Review the basis and current FDA label.