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Brand-name prescription medicine

Onivyde

Generic name: Irinotecan hydrochloride

FDA application holder: Ipsen

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Quick answers

What is Onivyde?
Onivyde is a brand name of Irinotecan hydrochloride, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Onivyde product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Onivyde?
Ipsen holds the FDA application for Onivyde (NDA207793, approved October 22, 2015).
Is there a generic or store brand of Onivyde?
Other products of Irinotecan hydrochloride are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Onivyde product.
Has Onivyde been recalled?
No recall linked to Onivyde products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Onivyde is

Each Onivyde 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.

Irinotecan hydrochloride · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
irinotecan hydrochloride 4.3 mg/mL
injection, powder, for solution (intravenous)
Onivyde None listed DailyMed

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

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Onivyde products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA207793IpsenOctober 22, 20151

Companies that list Onivyde

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Onivyde 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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