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Aurobindo Pharma receives USFDA approval for drug related to moderate dementia

India Blooms News Service | | Mar 29, 2016, at 08:16 pm

#Aurobindo Pharma receives USFDA # US Food & Drug Administration

Hyderabad/Mumbai, Mar 29 (IBNS) Aurobindo Pharma Limited, which manufactures generic pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients, announced on Tuesday that the company has received the final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Rivastigmine Tartrate Capsules USP, 1.5 mg, 3 mg, 4.5 mg and 6 mg.

This product is expected to be launched in the first quarter of fiscal year 2016-17.

The approved ANDA is bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug product (RLD) Exelon Capsules, 1.5 mg, 3 mg, 4.5 mg and 6 mg, of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, said the company.

Naproxen Sodium Tablets is used in the treatment of mild moderate dementia of the Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

The approved product has an estimated market size of US$ 26.7 million for the twelve months ending January 2016 according to IMS.

This is the 67th ANDA (including 14 tentative approvals) to be approved out of Unit VII formulation facility in Hyderabad, India for manufacturing oral non-antibiotic products.

Aurobindo now has a total of 246 ANDA approvals (211 Final approvals including 10 from Aurolife Pharma LLC and 35 tentative approvals) from USFDA.

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