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Brand-name prescription medicine

Plenamine

Generic name: Valine, lysine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, tryptophan, alanine, glycine, arginine, proline, glutamic acid, serine, aspartic acid and tyrosine

FDA application holder: B Braun

Official data, not advice

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Quick answers

What is Plenamine?
Plenamine is a brand name of Valine, lysine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, tryptophan, alanine, glycine, arginine, proline, glutamic acid, serine, aspartic acid and tyrosine, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Plenamine product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Plenamine?
B Braun holds the FDA application for Plenamine (ANDA091112, approved April 13, 2012).
Is there a generic or store brand of Plenamine?
Other products of Valine, lysine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, tryptophan, alanine, glycine, arginine, proline, glutamic acid, serine, aspartic acid and tyrosine are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Plenamine product.
Has Plenamine been recalled?
No recall linked to Plenamine products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Plenamine is

Each Plenamine 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.

Valine, lysine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, tryptophan, alanine, glycine, arginine, proline, glutamic acid, serine, aspartic acid and tyrosine · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
alanine 2.17% · arginine 1.47% · aspartic acid 434 mg/100 mL · glutamic acid 749 mg/100 mL · glycine 1.04% · histidine 894 mg/100 mL · isoleucine 749 mg/100 mL · leucine 1.04% · lysine acetate 1.18% · methionine 749 mg/100 mL · phenylalanine 1.04% · proline 894 mg/100 mL · serine 592 mg/100 mL · threonine 749 mg/100 mL · tryptophan 250 mg/100 mL · tyrosine 39 mg/100 mL · valine 960 mg/100 mL
solution (intravenous)
Plenamine None listed DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Valine, lysine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, tryptophan, alanine, glycine, arginine, proline, glutamic acid, serine, aspartic acid and tyrosine →

FDA approval

  • ANDA: Abbreviated New Drug Application: how a generic version is approved.
FDA applications of Plenamine products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
ANDA091112B BraunApril 13, 20121

Companies that list Plenamine

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Plenamine 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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