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Originally Posted by RR-NYC
Wrong. They are not the same and if you worked in pharma you would know this 100%. Their adverse event profile aren't even the same
I too worked for a pharma company (a little $56B company called Pfizer) before moving into Medical device. The only thing a generic pharmaceutical company needs to guarantee is the active ingredient is the same. Everything else: stabilizers, drug delivery, and mechanism of action, metabolism are not regulated.
Your argument as to why you would buy it is not the point of the argument or the thread. Based on your posts, you would buy a BMW M3 regardless whether it was made by BMW or someone else who has no regard for trademarks or patents that essentially is telling you it's the same
Like I said, we have nothing to argue.
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Unless something has changed that's not correct, bioequivelance has to be established with a generic which includes rates of dissoution and such. Dosage form has to regulate absorbtion in the same way or peak times would be delayed or higher or lower as well. Especially with a sustained release formulation. Inactive ingredients can be whatever they want but that doesn't matter in the scheme of things.