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Brand-name prescription medicine

Cafergot

Generic name: Ergotamine tartrate and caffeine

FDA application holder: Pharmobedient

Official data, not advice

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Quick answers

What is Cafergot?
Cafergot is a brand name of Ergotamine tartrate and caffeine, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Cafergot product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Cafergot?
Pharmobedient holds the FDA application for Cafergot (ANDA040590, approved September 16, 2005).
Is there a generic or store brand of Cafergot?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 other product with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Cafergot product, 1 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Cafergot been recalled?
No recall linked to Cafergot products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Cafergot is

Each Cafergot 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.

Ergotamine tartrate and caffeine · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
caffeine 100 mg · ergotamine tartrate 1 mg
tablet, film coated (oral)
Cafergot 1 product, 1 company DailyMed

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

FDA approval

  • ANDA: Abbreviated New Drug Application: how a generic version is approved.
FDA applications of Cafergot products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
ANDA040590PharmobedientSeptember 16, 20051

Companies that list Cafergot

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Cafergot 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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