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Brand-name prescription medicine

Clindagel

Generic name: Clindamycin

FDA application holder: Bausch

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 Clindagel?
Clindagel is a brand name of Clindamycin, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Clindagel product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Clindagel?
Bausch holds the FDA application for Clindagel (NDA050782, approved November 27, 2000).
Is there a generic or store brand of Clindagel?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 other product with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Clindagel product, 1 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Clindagel been recalled?
No recall linked to Clindagel products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Clindagel is

Each Clindagel 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.

Clindamycin · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
clindamycin phosphate 10 mg/mL
gel (topical)
Clindagel 1 product, 1 company DailyMed

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

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Clindagel products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA050782BauschNovember 27, 20001

Companies that list Clindagel

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Clindagel 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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