Generic drugs do not differ greatly from their branded
equivalents. All drugs are carefully regulated in
exactly the same way to ensure they contain the
correct amount of active ingredient as well as
suitable inactive ingredients and are produced and
manufactured in a similar way.

The generic drug must be shown to be bioequivalent to
the branded alternative i.e. releases exactly the same
amount of active ingredient over the same time scale.

The differences often lie mostly in the presentation
of the drug for example a branded drug may produce
pills which have a nice colouring and flavour, whereas
the generic version will generally contain little more
than the active ingredient.

There should therefore be very little difference to
the patient between branded and generic drugs and both
have to go through the same regulators. Generics have
a few advantages however over the branded
alternatives.

The branded drug is often the first of it

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