AgencyURLDescription
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Drugs@FDA http://www​.accessdata​.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/ Drugs@FDA allows you to search for official information about FDA approved brand name and generic drugs and therapeutic biological products currently approved for sale in the United States.

Includes the following:
  • monoclonal antibodies
  • cytokines, growth factors, enzymes, immunomodulators; and thrombolytics
  • proteins intended for therapeutic use that are extracted from animals or microorganisms, including recombinant versions of these products (except clotting factors)
  • other nonvaccine therapeutic immunotherapies
Does not include:
  • over-the-counter products approved for marketing through a process other than submission of a New Drug Application or Biologic License Application
  • drugs sold outside the United States that are not approved for marketing in the U.S.
  • drugs not approved by the FDA
  • drugs under review at FDA for which no action (approved or not approved) has occurred yet
  • dietary supplements
  • biological products regulated by the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
  • animal drugs{Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, 2010 #1164}

Abbreviations: FDA = U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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