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Brand-name prescription medicine

Anusol HC

Generic name: Hydrocortisone

FDA application holder: Salix Pharms

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Quick answers

What is Anusol HC?
Anusol HC is a brand name of Hydrocortisone, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Anusol HC product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Anusol HC?
Salix Pharms holds the FDA application for Anusol HC (ANDA088250, approved June 6, 1984).
Is there a generic or store brand of Anusol HC?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 40 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Anusol HC product, 40 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Anusol HC been recalled?
No recall linked to Anusol HC products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Anusol HC is

Each Anusol HC product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Hydrocortisone · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
hydrocortisone 2.5%
cream (topical)
Anusol HC 40 products, 16 companies DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Hydrocortisone →

FDA approval

  • ANDA: Abbreviated New Drug Application: how a generic version is approved.
FDA applications of Anusol HC products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
ANDA088250Salix PharmsJune 6, 19841

Companies that list Anusol HC

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Anusol HC products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Anusol HC products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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