Drugs@FDA

Drugs@FDA provides one place where you can search for official information about FDA approved brand name and generic drugs. The main uses of Drugs@FDA are: Finding labels for approved drug products. Finding generic drug products for a brand name drug product. Finding therapeutically equivalent drug products for a brand name or generic drug product. Finding consumer information for drugs approved after 1998. Finding all drugs with a specific active ingredient. Viewing the regulatory history of an approved drug.

A database listing most brand name and generic drug products approved by the Food and Drug Administration since 1939, including prescription and over-the-counter human drugs currently approved for sale in the United States, as well as discontinued drugs. "The majority of labels, approval letters, reviews, and other information are available for drug products approved from 1998 to the present." Browsable, or searchable by drug name, active ingredient, company, FDA action date, and more. http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm http://lii.org?recs=021080 Subjects: United States. Food and Drug Administration; Drugs; Drugs, Nonprescription. Created by: rs. Copyright 2004 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org.