What are Generic Drugs?

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  • Author Ivan Daniel
  • Published August 11, 2010
  • Word count 506

What are generic drugs?

When a drug company first invents a drug that company is the only one allowed to make that drug in the same country for a certain number of years. After this time period, other companies are allowed to make the same drug. These drugs are called generics. The original drug (e.g. Viagra) is called a brand name drug. Brand name drugs and their generics are IDENTICAL in terms of active ingredients. The generic pills may look different (because they are made by a different company) but inside is exactly the same active ingredient, which works in exactly the same way. The only difference between brand name drugs and generic drugs is that generics are always much less expensive.

Are these the same drugs as the name brand products?

Our products and the name brand equivalents are identical and your body won't know the difference. Zenegra (Generic Viagra) and Viagra™® both consist of 100 mg of sildenafil citrate. Generic Viagra™ is simply a generic version of Viagra™® - just like ibuprofen is the generic name for Advil®. The same goes for every single pharmaceutical we sell.

All pharmaceuticals are simple recipes of common chemical raw ingredients. Making an exact copy of a pharmaceutical is quite simple. Our state of the art laboratories are able to replicate all major name brand pharmaceuticals quite easily, and complex and routine testing assures us that our products are an exact match.

Generics do not look the same as the brand name products, even though they have the same active ingredient and work in exactly the same way. In addition, the same brand name pill may look different if manufacturer in a different country. For example, Celexa 20MG is a peach colored pill in the US, yet the Canadian pill is white and a little bit smaller than the US pill. Both pills are Celexa 20MG, both have the same active ingredient, and both are made by the same company. But, for whatever reason, the manufacturer decided to make the Canadian pill a different color. Also, when comparing 2 different Generics, they will look different if they are made by 2 different companies.

Are these generics just as effective as the name brand drugs?

Generic drugs are just as safe and effective as their brand-name counterparts. Our products are made in India by pharmaceutical manufacturers in state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. These are the very companies that manufacture (and export in bulk) the drug that goes in to the making of the world's best-selling brands in US and Europe. In the new global economy, manufacturing is increasingly being outsourced to overseas facilities of parent companies or third-party suppliers. Naturally any new advances in manufacturing technology are invested in to these overseas facilities, rather than in to the company's little-used factories in US and Europe. Our generic drugs are manufactured in state-of-the-art facilities that fully comply with the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) stipulations laid down by the US FDA.

Read and learn more about Generic drugs on my blog : http://PillsLand.blogspot.com/

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