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Brand-name prescription medicine

Minocin

Generic name: Minocycline hydrochloride

FDA application holder: Rempex

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 Minocin?
Minocin is a brand name of Minocycline hydrochloride, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Minocin product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Minocin?
Rempex holds the FDA application for Minocin (NDA050444, approved October 26, 1972).
Is there a generic or store brand of Minocin?
Other products of Minocycline hydrochloride are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Minocin product.
Has Minocin been recalled?
No recall linked to Minocin products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Minocin is

Each Minocin 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.

Minocycline hydrochloride · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
minocycline hydrochloride 100 mg
injection (intravenous)
Minocin None listed DailyMed

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

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Minocin products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA050444RempexOctober 26, 19721

Companies that list Minocin

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Minocin 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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