Preven Emergency Contraceptive Kit
date: label: date made
content: 1999
label: FDA approval
content: 1998
name: label: maker
content: Gynetics
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Somerville
topic: label: Subject
content: Birth Control/Contraception
label: Subject
content: Women's Health
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Birth Control
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gynetics Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0226.1
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0226.1
label: accession number
content: 1999.0226
objectType: label: Object Name
content: emergency contraceptive kit
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral, emergency
label: Object Name
content: contraceptive, oral
label: Object Name
content: emergency contraception
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: levonorgestrel, 0.25mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: ethinyl estradiol, 0.05mg (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: foil (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (packaging material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (booklet, insert material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2.3 cm x 22 cm x 6.4 cm; 7/8 in x 8 11/16 in x 2 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: 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