Reporter from Hong Kong Economic Herald:, there are both original drugs and generic drugs on the market. What are the differences between them? Thanks.
Wang Xiaoyang, Deputy Director of the Consumer Goods Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology : Thank you for your question. Oseltamivir phosphate is the generic name of a drug. The "original drugs" and "generic drugs" you mentioned just now are actually popular terms that have been formed over a long period of time hong kong telegram data due to historical reasons. According to the order of drug research and development and marketing, the first original research new drug to be marketed is called an "original drug". After the patent of this product expires or the patent is authorized, the products produced by other manufacturers in accordance with the relevant standards of this "original drug" are called "generic drugs". In fact, the common concept internationally is called "generic drugs", which specifically refers to generic drugs developed and produced by other pharmaceutical companies after the patent of original new drugs or patented drugs or brand-name drugs expires, with the same active ingredients, dosage forms, routes of administration and therapeutic effects, which can be replaced with each other in clinical treatment.