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FDA Flags Another Record Year for Generic Approvals
January 6, 2020
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn announced that the FDA has seen yet another record-breaking year of generic drug approvals.
The agency approved 1,171 generics in fiscal 2019, up by 20 percent from 971 in fiscal 2018. The FDA has seen a steady increase in generic approvals since fiscal 2014 when it approved 500 products.
Hahn also announced the agency’s 98th first generic approval this year, a copycat version of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer’s anticoagulant Eliquis (apixaban).