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Brand-name prescription medicine

Cervidil

Generic name: Dinoprostone

FDA application holder: Ferring Pharms Inc

Official data, not advice

Everything here comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the official labels and recall reports; pharmacy costs come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Each fact shows its source and date.

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Quick answers

What is Cervidil?
Cervidil is a brand name of Dinoprostone, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Cervidil product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Cervidil?
Ferring Pharms Inc holds the FDA application for Cervidil (NDA020411, approved March 30, 1995).
Is there a generic or store brand of Cervidil?
Other products of Dinoprostone are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Cervidil product.
Has Cervidil been recalled?
No recall linked to Cervidil products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Cervidil is

Each Cervidil 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.

Dinoprostone · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
dinoprostone 10 mg/241 mg
insert (vaginal)
Cervidil None listed DailyMed

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

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Cervidil products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA020411Ferring Pharms IncMarch 30, 19951

Companies that list Cervidil

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Cervidil 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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