What is a generic drugs in pharmaceuticals
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2007-11-15 19:02:20
As they do not have to carry the sometimes enormous publicity costs (and obscene profits the pharma transnational make) they are sold for about 10% of the brand name products. The transnationals argue they are inferior in quality. THIS IS NOT TRUE. The FDA would not permit that and keeps a very strict eye on quality of prescription or OTC drugs.
An example (among hundreds) would be: ASPIRINE sold as acetic acetyl salicylic acid or PENTREXYL sold as ampicilin.
There are piles of legal documents that explain this in a very lengthy way, so, forgive me for being brief-ha ha. The example I will use is Motrin, Motrin is the brand name, the company that manufactured it had so many years to sell it under their label before other pharmaceutical companies could duplicate it and sell it for less money. Now some generics are being found to not come up to the Brand names are are being recalled. I hope I explained this well.
reproduction of the originals without any pa tenet violations.