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Brand-name prescription medicine

Major Oral Rinse

Generic name: Chlorhexidine gluconate

FDA application holder: Pharmobedient

Strengths and generic versions Official label

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.

This page is not medical advice. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist before you start, stop or switch any medicine, including a switch between a brand and a generic.

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At a glance

1Strengths and forms
28Same medicine, other names
2009FDA approval
0Recalls (FDA reports)

Quick answers

What is Major Oral Rinse?
Major Oral Rinse is a brand name of Chlorhexidine gluconate, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 2 Major Oral Rinse products in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Major Oral Rinse?
Pharmobedient holds the FDA application for Major Oral Rinse (ANDA077789, approved June 18, 2009).
Is there a generic or store brand of Major Oral Rinse?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 28 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Major Oral Rinse product, 27 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Major Oral Rinse been recalled?
No recall linked to Major Oral Rinse products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Major Oral Rinse is

Each Major Oral Rinse 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.

Chlorhexidine gluconate · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
chlorhexidine gluconate 1.2 mg/mL
rinse (oral)		 Major Oral Rinse 28 products, 20 companies DailyMed

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

FDA approval

  • ANDA: Abbreviated New Drug Application: how a generic version is approved.
FDA applications of Major Oral Rinse products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
ANDA077789PharmobedientJune 18, 20092

Companies that list Major Oral Rinse

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Major Oral Rinse 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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