Generic Zanaflex from Alpharma

21 July 2002

Alpharma has become the latest company in the USA to be grantedapproval to market a generic version of Elan's Zanaflex (tizanidine hydrochloride) for spasticity (see also Marketletter July 8). The generics firm has been given clearance to market both the 2mg and 4mg versions of the drug, which it hopes to launch "in the near future." Alpharma estimates that sales of the brand reached $150 million in 2001.

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