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Originally Posted by mrsD
RX drugs go thru an expensive process to make them BIOavailable...meaning they have to be absorbed a certain amount in each person, reliably. This is part of the new drug application evaluated by the FDA. Generics have to match this data within certain statistical limits.
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Would that statistical limit be around 85%? A friend in medicine once told me that generics only have to be 85% as effective as brand-names, which is why some people swear by the brand-names and dis the generics.
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