[e-drug] Sumamed registered in USA? (2)

E-DRUG: Sumamed registered in USA? (2)
--------------------------------------

Please let us know if the Azithromycin Tablets 500mg sold
under brand Name Sumamed by Pliva dd is approved by CDER as
generic substitute of Zithrox of Pfizer.

You can check this link for drug products approved by FDA/CDER:

Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations
Orange Book

http://www.fda.gov/cder/orange/default.htm

Hank Malinowski Ph.D.
Mansfield Fellow
Director, Division of Pharmaceutical Evaluation II
Office of Clinical Pharmacology & Biopharmaceutics
Center for Drug Evaluation & Research
U.S. FDA
MALINOWSKI@cder.fda.gov

[I quickly checked, and although Pliva has many generics registered in USA,
azithromycin is not among them. WB]

--
To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@healthnet.org
To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@healthnet.org
in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug
To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@healthnet.org
Information and archives: Essentialdrugs.org