Chemet is a brand name of Succimer, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Chemet product in 1 strength and form.

Recordati Rare holds the FDA application for Chemet (NDA019998, approved January 30, 1991).

Is there a generic or store brand of Chemet?

Other products of Succimer are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Chemet product.

Chemet (Succimer): maker, FDA approval and generic versions

Official data, not advice

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Quick answers

What is Chemet?: Chemet is a brand name of Succimer, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Chemet product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Chemet?: Recordati Rare holds the FDA application for Chemet (NDA019998, approved January 30, 1991).
Is there a generic or store brand of Chemet?: Other products of Succimer are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Chemet product.
Has Chemet been recalled?: No recall linked to Chemet products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Chemet is

Each Chemet 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.

Succimer · prescription medicine

Strength and form	Product names	Same medicine, other names	Label
succimer 100 mg capsule (oral)	Chemet	None listed	DailyMed

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

FDA approval

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

FDA applications of Chemet products (Drugs@FDA)
Application	Holder	First approved	Products
NDA019998	Recordati Rare	January 30, 1991	1

Companies that list Chemet

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

Recordati Rare Diseases, Inc.1 product

Recalls

No recall linked to Chemet 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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