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Brand-name prescription medicine

Orbactiv

Generic name: Oritavancin

FDA application holder: Melinta Therap

Official data, not advice

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Quick answers

What is Orbactiv?
Orbactiv is a brand name of Oritavancin, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Orbactiv product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Orbactiv?
Melinta Therap holds the FDA application for Orbactiv (NDA206334, approved August 6, 2014).
Is there a generic or store brand of Orbactiv?
Other products of Oritavancin are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Orbactiv product.
Has Orbactiv been recalled?
No recall linked to Orbactiv products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Orbactiv is

Each Orbactiv 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.

Oritavancin · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
oritavancin 400 mg
injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution (intravenous)
Orbactiv None listed —

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

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Orbactiv products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA206334Melinta TherapAugust 6, 20141

Companies that list Orbactiv

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Orbactiv 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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