What is Varibar Thin Liquid?

Varibar Thin Liquid is a brand name of Barium sulfate, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Varibar Thin Liquid product in 1 strength and form.

Who makes Varibar Thin Liquid?

Bracco holds the FDA application for Varibar Thin Liquid (NDA208036, approved January 11, 2016).

Is there a generic or store brand of Varibar Thin Liquid?

Other products of Barium sulfate are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Varibar Thin Liquid product.

Varibar Thin Liquid (Barium sulfate): maker, FDA approval and generic versions

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Quick answers

What is Varibar Thin Liquid?: Varibar Thin Liquid is a brand name of Barium sulfate, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Varibar Thin Liquid product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Varibar Thin Liquid?: Bracco holds the FDA application for Varibar Thin Liquid (NDA208036, approved January 11, 2016).
Is there a generic or store brand of Varibar Thin Liquid?: Other products of Barium sulfate are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Varibar Thin Liquid product.
Has Varibar Thin Liquid been recalled?: No recall linked to Varibar Thin Liquid products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Varibar Thin Liquid is

Each Varibar Thin Liquid 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.

Barium sulfate · prescription medicine

Strength and form	Product names	Same medicine, other names	Label
barium sulfate 81% powder, for suspension (oral)	Varibar Thin Liquid	None listed	DailyMed

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

FDA approval

NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.

FDA applications of Varibar Thin Liquid products (Drugs@FDA)
Application	Holder	First approved	Products
NDA208036	Bracco	January 11, 2016	1

Companies that list Varibar Thin Liquid

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

E-Z-EM Canada Inc1 product

Recalls

No recall linked to Varibar Thin Liquid products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
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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