what is a generic drugs in pharmaceuticals?

Answer 1

It's like brand name products versus generic products. You've got Peter Pan peanut butter (the brand name) and you've got Great Value peanut butter (a generic put out by WalMart). It's the same product, just two different names and one costs more.

Same thing applies to drugs. You could be prescribed Motrin but receive Ibuprofen. It's the same thing, just two different names.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Generic drugs are drugs that are sold under their CHEMICAL NAME AND NOT under their -sometimes world known BRAND NAME.
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.

Answer 4

Simply, it's medication made by someone other than the company who branded the original med. For all intents and purposes it should be the exact same drug made using the same exact process as the original. It follows the same 'recipe' hence generic meds should be the same as the original name brand med.

Answer 5

A generic drug is simply a unnamed variety of a brand name drug, like generic Motrin would be referred to as simply ibuprofen 400mg....etc

Answer 6

you have a stable element. popular meds are meant to be chemically comparable to the type names. There are some (no longer many) that for some reason do no longer artwork besides and from time to time medical doctors will tell the affected person and pharmacist that this is not any longer okay to apply popular. i don't have an evidence for why that's yet i be responsive to this is real.

Answer 7

When the patent runs out on a drug, other companies can then make and sell that drug. These copies that are cheaper are generics.

Answer 8

generic drugs are the ones that have not been advertised, they do not waste money on expensive lables or anything, they make money by being inexpensive....they have the same ingredients as the name brands, just lower cost :]

Answer 9

reproduction of the originals without any pa tenet violations.