Aurobindo Pharma receives USFDA Approval for Potassium Chloride ER Tablets

Aurobindo Pharma Limited is pleased to announce that the company has received final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Potassium Chloride ExtendedRelease tablets, 8 mEq (600 mg) and 10 mEq (750 mg). Potassium Chloride Extended-Release tablets, a generic version of Upsher-Smith’s Klor-Con® Extended Release tablets. The product will be launched in January 2019. Potassium Chloride tablets are indicated for the treatment of hypokalemia, with or without metabolic alkalosis, in digitalis intoxication, and in hypokalemic familial periodic paralysis. The approved product has an estimated market size of ~US$ 60 million for the twelve months ending October 2018, according to IQVIA.