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Originally Posted by 1MOREMOD
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.
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The active ingredients are equivalent, yes, but the bolded portion isn't
always correct. It's sometimes correct, and for a lot of the drugs you encounter on a daily basis as a pharmacist the bolded part probably is correct most of the time. One prominent example where it isn't necessarily correct is for vaccine development.