Object Details
- Gynetics
- Description (Brief)
- Gynétics Medical Products of Somerville, New Jersey, produced this Preven emergency contraceptive kit around 1999. The kit was the first FDA-approved product specifically for emergency contraception. The kit contains a patient information book, a pregnancy test, and four pills in two pairs inside a silver blister pack. The kit opens into three panels bearing step-by-step instructions on how to use the emergency contraceptive kit.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gynetics Inc.
- 1999
- FDA approval
- 1998
- ID Number
- 1999.0226.1
- catalog number
- 1999.0226.1
- accession number
- 1999.0226
- Object Name
- emergency contraceptive kit
- contraceptive, oral, emergency
- contraceptive, oral
- emergency contraception
- Physical Description
- levonorgestrel, 0.25mg (drug active ingredients)
- ethinyl estradiol, 0.05mg (drug active ingredients)
- cardboard (packaging material)
- foil (packaging material)
- plastic (packaging material)
- paper (booklet, insert material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.3 cm x 22 cm x 6.4 cm; 7/8 in x 8 11/16 in x 2 1/2 in
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 8 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 6.35 cm x 21.9075 cm x 2.2225 cm
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Somerville
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Birth Control
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Birth Control/Contraception
- Women's Health
- Record ID
- nmah_472583
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-d859-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
