Question about Humira

[Caroline]

Hi Yvon,

Humira is made by only one pharmacist Abbvie. There are no other producers.
Two Humira biosimilars, Amjevita and Cyltezo, have been approved by the FDA, but they are not yet available, so they are probably also  not available in Europe.

What i was trying to quote, and perhaps my Englisch was wrong, is that Humira, Adalimumab, is only a "Brand". So perhaps the biosimilars, another brand, but still adalimumab, has the same ingedients as Humira.
Like the brand Idacio is available in the Netherlands, it's the biosimilar for adalimumab.
But if the effect and the ingredients are the same, i don't know.
Do you now? 

Hi Yvon,
True.. Humira is a brandname, the real name of the product is Adalimumab, but this also is a name and it is only produced by Abbvie.

Definition of a biosimilar:
A biosimilar is a copy of a biologic medicine that is similar, but not identical, to the original medicine. It enters the market subsequent to a previously authorized version whose patent has expired and is approved only after showing that it is “highly similar” to an approved biological product, known as a reference product, in terms of safety, purity, and potency, and in some cases efficacy, with allowable minor differences. To be called a biosimilar, these compounds need to demonstrate structural and functional similarities with comparable pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties to the reference product.

So… no the structure is not the same but similar.
It does have the same effect though !