FDA DailyMed label said "indicted" instead of "indicated"

On an FDA DailyMed prescribing-info label, an Indications line said the tablets were indicted for use. It should have said indicated. ContextRx human-verified the contextual word error.

That is not a typo. Both words are real English, correctly spelled. One belongs in a courtroom. The other belongs in Indications. A US generics labeler published the wrong one.

Published wording (paraphrased): the tablets are indicted for use in the labeled setting.

Required wording: the tablets are indicated for use in that setting.

Indicated is the clinical term for approved or labeled use. Indicted is a legal verb — charged with a crime. A dictionary accepts both. Spellcheck has nothing to flag. Only a reader who knows how Indications sentences are supposed to sound catches the swap.

Spellcheckers look for strings that are not words. A contextual word error is different: the string is a word; it is just the wrong word for the job. ContextRx looks for exactly that class of failure on FDA DailyMed labels — correctly spelled wrong words that survive ordinary QA.

"Indicted" and "indicated" share letters and rhythm. A paste or template edit can drop the legal verb into a clinical sentence. The line still reads. The formal statement of use is still wrong.

Indications language is how a label states what the product is for. Swapping in a legal verb does not change clinical eligibility on paper, but it does degrade the precision of the use statement — the part clinicians and patients rely on when deciding whether a product fits the case.

The error sits in the use statement itself, not in a fringe footnote. That makes severity high, and it makes this a clean teaching case: you can see the intended word, you can see the published word, and you can see why automation that only checks spelling will wave it through.

ContextRx keeps public posts at company class only. No product name, no setid, no DailyMed link. The point is the failure class — a contextual word error on an FDA DailyMed label — not a pile-on.

US generics labeler.