{"id":666439,"date":"2026-06-30T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:34:09","slug":"1st-generic-semaglutide-injection-for-weight-loss-approved-health-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/666439\/","title":{"rendered":"1st generic semaglutide injection for weight loss approved: Health Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A generic semaglutide injection to promote weight loss is now approved in Canada, Health Canada says.<\/p>\n

The regulator said<\/a> the product submission, called Svemia, was filed by Canadian-based Apotex and is a generic version of the brand name drug Wegovy, sold by Denmark’s Novo Nordisk<\/p>\n

Monday’s announcement by Health Canada marks its third such generic semaglutide product approval.<\/p>\n

Health Canada said Svemia is approved for use once a week to treat people age 12 and older for chronic weight management in combination with a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity<\/p>\n

The first two generic semaglutide injections were to treat Type 2 diabetes in adults.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Generic versions of Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic from India-based Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories and Apotex were approved earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Health Canada noted it’s reviewing six other submissions for generic semaglutide from different companies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-666439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}