Reckitt Negotiating Details For Generic Mucinex It Will Provide Mutual

Litigation over supply agreement stayed after firms indicated to US district court they would settle. Mutual showed that RB failed to honor an agreement to supply generics of the original Mucinex guaifenesin, but had not provided sufficient detail for RB to provide a product that would meet regulatory standards.

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Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC is currently negotiating color, shape and other details for OTC guaifenesin extended-release tablets it will provide Mutual PharmaceuticalCo. Inc. A federal court earlier stayed Mutual's 2015 complaint that RB reneged on an agreement to supply it with a generic version of the product.

In a November 2016 order, Judge Petrese Tucker in US District Court for the Eastern Pennsylvania District stayed...

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