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Zydus receives final approval from USFDA for Lidocaine and Prilocaine Cream USP

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Zydus receives final approval from USFDA for Lidocaine and Prilocaine Cream USP

Zydus Lifesciences Ltd. with an overarching purpose of empowering people with freedom to live healthier and more fulfilled lives, is an innovative, global lifesciences company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of healthcare therapies.

Zydus Life sciences Limited (including its subsidiaries/ affiliates, hereafter referred to as “Zydus”) has received final approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture Lidocaine and Prilocaine Cream USP, 2.5%/2.5% (USRLD : EMLA® Cream, 2.5%/2.5%). 

Lidocaine and Prilocaine Cream USP is indicated as a topical anaesthetic for use on normal intact skin for local analgesia and genital mucous membranes for superficial minor surgery and as pretreatment for infiltration anaesthesia. Lidocaine and Prilocaine cream will be produced at the Group’s topical manufacturing site at Changodar, Ahmedabad. 

Lidocaine and Prilocaine cream had annual sales of USD 22.05 mn in the United States (IQVIA MAT October 2024).