A equivalência farmacêutica de medicamentos genéricos e similares

Authors

  • Mônica Winkler de Oliveira Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU)
  • Ana Cláudia Gavazi de Morais Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU)
  • Eliana Rodrigues de Araújo
  • Sheila Rodrigues
  • Priscila Alves Balista FMU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8670-4217

Abstract

The insertion of generic drugs in the late 1990s came with the aim of stimulating commercial competition, facilitating the population's access and improving the quality of medicines, but this brought the need to implement a medicine registration policy, such as, example, pharmaceutical equivalence. Generic and similar drugs have active(s) pharmaceutical(s) ingredient(s) identical to the brand drugs and are confirmed through tests sent to the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) for proof. Currently the brazilian legislation requires to go through rigorous quality processes as pharmaceutical equivalence tests and bioequivalence assay using pharmacopoeial method and validated procedure to be classified as interchangeable drugs. Therefore, every generic/similar medicine is considered safe and can be purchased by the consumer with the complete confidence and efficacy of a pharmaceutical product with a high standard of quality

Published

2023-06-12

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Artigo Teórico