Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited Announces Tentative Approval of Generic Requip® Tablets

JERUSALEM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted tentative approval for the Company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market its generic version of GlaxoSmithKline’s Requip® (Ropinirole HCl) Tablets, Eq. 0.25 mg base, 0.5 mg base, 1 mg base, 2 mg base, 3 mg base, 4 mg base and 5 mg base. Final approval of Teva’s Ropinirole HCl Tablets is expected upon expiry of patent protection for the brand product on May 19, 2008.

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