Looking through online drugstores pages you will find a word “Generic” that stays before the titles of many our drugs that attracted your attention?

What does it mean for a customer of an online drugstore? Let’s try to sort out this matter.

Usually pharmacists companies spend many years and millions of dollars to invent and explore a new drug. Generic is just the same chemical copy of a drug, which license expiration date come to the end. Generic companies didn’t spend so much money to make a drug, so it is much cheaper than the brand.

There is another thing – usually several pharmaceutical companies make generics of the same brands; competition between them makes generics prices more pleasant.

Pharmaceutics is one of the most controlling sectors by government and international organizations all over the world. Any drug, both original and its generic, goes through the same, very strict quality control. For another thing, before going out for sale, generic passes through a test of a full compliance with the original brand.

Do all the drugs, that were invented many years ago, and being used now, have their generics?

No, they don’t. The only drugs that have their generics are ones that have most of sales. Only effective and safe drugs have their own generics, the action of which was proved by time.

Draw your own conclusions!