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Brand-name prescription medicine

Zorcaine

Generic name: Articaine hydrochloride and epinephrine

FDA application holder: Deproco

Official data, not advice

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Quick answers

What is Zorcaine?
Zorcaine is a brand name of Articaine hydrochloride and epinephrine, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Zorcaine product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Zorcaine?
Deproco holds the FDA application for Zorcaine (NDA020971, approved April 3, 2000).
Is there a generic or store brand of Zorcaine?
Yes. The FDA NDC Directory lists 10 other products with the same active ingredients, strength and form as a Zorcaine product, 9 of them generic. Ask your pharmacist whether one is right for you.
Has Zorcaine been recalled?
No recall linked to Zorcaine products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Zorcaine is

Each Zorcaine 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.

Articaine hydrochloride and epinephrine · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
articaine hydrochloride 40 mg/mL · epinephrine bitartrate 0.01 mg/mL
injection, solution (submucosal)
Zorcaine 10 products, 7 companies DailyMed

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

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Zorcaine products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA020971DeprocoApril 3, 20001

Companies that list Zorcaine

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

Recalls

No recall linked to Zorcaine 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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