{"id":204733,"date":"2025-12-28T08:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/204733\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:10:13","slug":"canadians-face-longer-wait-for-copycat-ozempic-on-filing-holdup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/204733\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Face Longer Wait for Copycat Ozempic on Filing Holdup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Canadians face a longer-than-expected wait for cheaper versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/NOVOB:DC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Novo Nordisk A\/S<\/a>\u2019s diabetes drug Ozempic after two of the biggest generics makers were hit with additional requests from the health regulator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/SDZ:SW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Sandoz Group AG<\/a> received a notice of deficiency from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0456292D:CN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Health Canada<\/a> \u2014 meaning a drug doesn\u2019t yet meet regulatory requirements \u2014 for the Swiss drugmaker\u2019s copycat version of semaglutide, Ozempic\u2019s main ingredient, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadians face a longer-than-expected wait for cheaper versions of Novo Nordisk A\/S\u2019s diabetes drug Ozempic after two of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[575,275,607,55872,1757,134,79203,2344,648,524,111,139,27536,69,640,125004],"class_list":["post-204733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-brazil","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-citigroup-inc","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-health-canada","tag-india","tag-industries","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-nz","tag-regulation","tag-sandoz-group-ag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}