{"id":612050,"date":"2026-04-28T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612050\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:28:09","slug":"health-regulator-authorizes-indian-company-to-sell-first-generic-ozempic-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/612050\/","title":{"rendered":"Health regulator authorizes Indian company to sell first generic Ozempic in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/VRBXE2HHCJCJZETSLD54H6TJ74.jpg?auth=30c099371162d466f03ef7f708c67337d400d92263430ababc33f17560aa5ecc&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">A doctor in Mumbai displays the Ozempic GLP-1 self-injectable at a clinic.INDRANIL MUKHERJEE\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Indian pharmaceutical company Dr. Reddy\u2019s Laboratories Ltd. has become the first drug maker authorized to sell a generic version of the blockbuster drug Ozempic, according to Health Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The regulator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/health-products.canada.ca\/noc-ac\/nocInfo?no=37419\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/health-products.canada.ca\/noc-ac\/nocInfo?no=37419\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> was updated Tuesday afternoon to show that it issued a notice of compliance to Dr. Reddy\u2019s that day to make an injectable form of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Generic semaglutide became legal in Canada as of Jan. 5, but Health Canada did not approve any of the active applications from six drug makers until now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Dr. Reddy\u2019s has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/economy\/article-generic-ozempic-makes-debut-in-india-ahead-of-canada-where-it-became\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/economy\/article-generic-ozempic-makes-debut-in-india-ahead-of-canada-where-it-became\/\" target=\"_blank\">selling generic semaglutide<\/a> in India since it became legal there last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A doctor in Mumbai displays the Ozempic GLP-1 self-injectable at a clinic.INDRANIL MUKHERJEE\/AFP\/Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[97,243,82307,265707],"class_list":["post-612050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-ne-i","tag-skinnyinc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}