Health & Fitness
Health and Fitness
Health and Fitness 
Fri, January 21, 2011
Thu, January 20, 2011
Dr. Reddya?s Announces the Launch of Pantoprazole Sodium Delayed-Released Tablets
HYDERABAD, India--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Dr. Reddya™s Laboratories (NYSE:RDY) today announced that it has launched Pantoprazole Sodium Delayed-Released tablets (20mg and 40mg strengths), a bioequivalent generic version of Protonix®Tablets in the US market. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved Dr. Reddya™s ANDA for Pantoprazole Sodium Delayed-Released tabletson January 19, 2011.
Pantoprazole Sodium Delayed-Released tablets had total U.S. sales of approximately $1.8 billion for the twelve months ending September 30, 2010 according to IMS Health. Both strengths of Dr. Reddya™s Pantoprazole Sodium Delayed-Released tabletsare available in 90 count bottles.
Disclaimer
This press release includes forward-looking statements, as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially. Such factors include, but are not limited to, changes in local and global economic conditions, our ability to successfully implement our strategy, the market acceptance of and demand for our products, our growth and expansion, technological change and our exposure to market risks. By their nature, these expectations and projections are only estimates and could be materially different from actual results in the future.
About Dr. Reddya™s
Dr. Reddya™s Laboratories Ltd. (NYSE: RDY) is an integrated global pharmaceutical company, committed to providing affordable and innovative medicines for healthier lives. Through its three businesses - Pharmaceutical Services and Active Ingredients, Global Generics and Proprietary Products a" Dr. Reddya™s offers a portfolio of products and services including APIs, custom pharmaceutical services, generics, biosimilars, differentiated formulations and NCEs. Therapeutic focus is on gastro-intestinal, cardiovascular, diabetology, oncology, pain management, anti-infective and pediatrics. Major markets include India, USA, Russia and CIS, Germany, UK, Venezuela, S. Africa, Romania, and New Zealand. For more information, log on to: [ www.drreddys.com ]
Protonix®, is a registered Trademark of Nycomed GmbH
IMS National Sales Perspectives: Retail and Non-Retail MAT 09/2010