Wyoming Statutes Title 33. Professions and Occupations § 33-24-147. Definitions

(i) “Brand name” means the proprietary or trade name selected by the manufacturer and placed upon a drug, its container, label or wrapping at the time of packaging;

(ii) “Generically equivalent drug” means a drug that contains identical active ingredients in the identical dosage forms, but not necessarily containing the same inactive ingredients, that meet the identical compendial or other applicable standards of identity, strength, quality and purity, including potency, and, where applicable, content uniformity, disintegration times or dissolution rates, as the prescribed brand name drug, and, if applicable, the manufacturer or distributor holds either an approved new drug application or an approved abbreviated new drug application unless other approval by law or from the Federal Food and Drug Administration is required. A generically equivalent drug shall bear an “AB” or higher rating in the Federal Food and Drug Administration Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations;

(iii) “Generic name” means the chemical or generic name, as determined by the United States Adopted Names (USAN) and accepted by the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), of those drug products having the same active chemical ingredients;

(iv) “Substitute” means to dispense a generically equivalent drug or interchangeable biological product in place of the prescription ordered or prescribed;

(v) “Therapeutically equivalent” means drugs that will provide the same bioavailability or bioequivalence when administered to an individual in the same dosage regimen;

(vi) “Biological product” means as defined in 42 U.S.C. 262(i)(1);

(vii) “Interchangeable biological product” means a biological product that the United States food and drug administration has:

(viii) “This act” means W.S. 33-24-146 through 33-24-151.