Generics account for 90 percent of prescriptions dispensed in the U.S., but only 12 percent of the total drug costs. The thousands of generics available today are rigorously tested by the FDA and must prove they are the same medicine with the same active ingredients, strength and dosage as their brand-name counterpart.
Generic drugs…are just as safe and just as effective as their brand-name counterparts, and they are a cost-effective way of achieving substantial savings.”
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
American Medical Association (AMA)
From time to time, you may read about the quality of certain brand-name or generic prescription medicines. The Association for Accessible Medicines (AAM), which represents companies that manufacture the majority of the FDA-approved generic medications available to patients in the United States, wants you to know the facts about the safety and effectiveness of the generic prescription drugs in your medicine cabinet.
Generic medicines fill 9 out of every 10 prescriptions in this country, and it is the quality, safety, effectiveness and tremendous affordability of these medicines that allow for the access that maintains and improves so many people’s health.
Learn how your generic and biosimilar industry is committed to your health.
