Quick answers
- What is Balanced Salt?
- Balanced Salt is a brand name of Balanced salt solution, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Balanced Salt product in 1 strength and form.
- Who makes Balanced Salt?
- B Braun holds the FDA application for Balanced Salt (ANDA091387, approved February 3, 2010).
- Is there a generic or store brand of Balanced Salt?
- Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 2 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Balanced Salt product. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
- Has Balanced Salt been recalled?
- No recall linked to Balanced Salt products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.
What Balanced Salt is
Each Balanced Salt 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.
Balanced salt solution · prescription medicine
| Strength and form | Product names | Same medicine, other names | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| calcium chloride 0.48 mg/mL · magnesium chloride 0.3 mg/mL · potassium chloride 0.75 mg/mL · sodium acetate 3.9 mg/mL · sodium chloride 6.4 mg/mL · sodium citrate 1.7 mg/mL solution (irrigation) | Balanced Salt | 2 products, 1 company | DailyMed |
Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Balanced salt solution →
FDA approval
- ANDA: Abbreviated New Drug Application: how a generic version is approved.
| Application | Holder | First approved | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDA091387 | B Braun | February 3, 2010 | 1 |
Companies that list Balanced Salt
The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Balanced Salt products.
- B. Braun Medical Inc.1 product
Recalls
No recall linked to Balanced Salt 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.