RxWatch: Generic Drug Makers

Pharmacies often fill a prescription with a generic made by a different company each time. RxWatch shows you who actually made it. Look up a generic medicine by name or by the NDC code on the bottle, or read the label with your camera or a photo. For each product you can see: • The plant that made it, with its address and country, and where that information came from and when. Pharmacy repackagers are marked, because they relabel a medicine but don't make it. • What FDA's public records say about that plant: its latest manufacturing inspection classification, recent warning letters and import alerts. • Inactive ingredients such as lactose, soy, dyes, gelatin, peanut oil and sulfites, so you can compare makers of the same medicine. Ingredients can differ between generics. • Other products FDA rates as interchangeable. You can leave out any that contain an ingredient you choose. • FDA recalls that name the product, with the lot numbers FDA lists. • A reminder to talk to your prescriber before switching makers of narrow-therapeutic-index medicines such as levothyroxine and warfarin. Add your medicines to My Medicines and RxWatch checks FDA's public changes against your list, then tells you when something concerns one of them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no tracking, no analytics. What you look up and the medicines you add stay on your phone. RxWatch downloads the same public data files as everyone else and does the matching on your device. IMPORTANT RxWatch reports what public records say. It does not tell you whether a medicine is safe or right for you, and it is not medical advice. An inspection result describes a plant, not a particular medicine. Talk to your prescriber or pharmacist before changing anything about your medicines. Sources: FDA, the National Library of Medicine (DailyMed), openFDA and ProPublica's Rx Inspector. RxWatch is not affiliated with or endorsed by the FDA or any of these sources.