Spurred by Got­tlieb, FDA on track to the most gener­ic drug OKs ever in 1 year

A lit­tle more than eight months in­to 2017 and the FDA is on pace to break its record for ab­bre­vi­at­ed new drug ap­pli­ca­tion — or AN­DA — ap­provals from last year.

Ac­cord­ing to the lat­est ver­sion of the ac­tiv­i­ties re­port of the gener­ic drug pro­gram, FDA has ap­proved 633 gener­ic drugs in FY 2017, which com­pares with a to­tal of 651 ap­provals in FY 2016.

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