Avagard is a brand name of Alcohol and chlorhexidine gluconate, an over-the-counter medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Avagard product in 1 strength and form.

Solventum holds the FDA application for Avagard (NDA021074, approved June 7, 2001).

Is there a generic or store brand of Avagard?

Other products of Alcohol and chlorhexidine gluconate are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Avagard product.

Avagard (Alcohol and chlorhexidine gluconate): maker, FDA approval and generic versions

Official data, not advice

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Quick answers

What is Avagard?: Avagard is a brand name of Alcohol and chlorhexidine gluconate, an over-the-counter medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Avagard product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Avagard?: Solventum holds the FDA application for Avagard (NDA021074, approved June 7, 2001).
Is there a generic or store brand of Avagard?: Other products of Alcohol and chlorhexidine gluconate are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Avagard product.
Has Avagard been recalled?: No recall linked to Avagard products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Avagard is

Each Avagard 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.

Alcohol and chlorhexidine gluconate · over-the-counter medicine

Strength and form	Product names	Same medicine, other names	Label
alcohol 506.3 mg/mL · chlorhexidine gluconate 8.3 mg/mL lotion (topical)	3M Avagard	None listed	DailyMed

Its page quotes the Drug Facts label and lists every brand and store brand: Alcohol and chlorhexidine gluconate →

FDA approval

NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.

FDA applications of Avagard products (Drugs@FDA)
Application	Holder	First approved	Products
NDA021074	Solventum	June 7, 2001	1

Companies that list Avagard

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

Solventum US LLC1 product

Recalls

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

Sources

NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
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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