What this pack is
Avelox is the brand name in this record; moxifloxacin is the generic name. Read both together with the dosage form (oral tablet).
PACK CHECK · MARKET FIRST
AveloxGeneric namemoxifloxacin
How this medicine works
The 2020 FDA public label describes moxifloxacin as inhibiting bacterial DNA gyrase (topoisomerase II) and topoisomerase IV, enzymes involved in bacterial DNA replication, transcription, repair and recombination. This mechanism only helps explain a drug class; it cannot determine whether symptoms are bacterial or select an antibacterial medicine, route or course.
Read source: United States ↗Historical public record · reviewed 2026-08-20More about its action and precautions →Check the market, names, dosage form and route together
A medicine may use different brand names across markets. Keep the market, brand, generic name, dosage form and route together; one matching field does not prove that two packs are the same or interchangeable.
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Use these fields when the pack, market name or package image needs closer checking. They are evidence boundaries, not substitution instructions.
- International brand name
- Avelox
- Generic name
- moxifloxacin
- Dosage-form class
- Dosage form and presentation as documented in the linked primary label
- Route
- Oral
- Package-image status
- No exact original-brand package image is shown This is deliberate: do not use a retailer, repackager or another-market image to identify the pack in hand. See why and what to check instead →
No source-verifiable mainland-China trade-name cue has been established for this record. This does not establish whether the medicine exists, is approved or is available in mainland China. Check pack text and current CDE/NMPA records item by item.
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What this page can show
This is a source-traceable public record. It helps you read the product identity and its listed source documents; each market still needs its own current record check.
What to bring to the next conversation
Bring the actual pack, the label or prescription, and a complete medicine list when you speak with a pharmacist or clinician.
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A question about changing, combining or splitting?Put the exact packs on one list before a pharmacist or prescriber checks the full context.Open the family medicine list →A question about cost, reimbursement or availability?First lock the market, exact presentation and date. Use local official reimbursement, hospital or pharmacy channels for a current answer rather than a web estimate.Open regulator and market-record entry points →Unsure about a pack or a cross-border product?Photo reading can return possible record matches only. Check the actual product against the current regulator record for its market.Identify pack text locally →Saw a recall, approval or procurement headline?Open the original publisher, then match its product, market and date. Do not make a stop or switch decision from a headline.Read primary-source news →
PRODUCT PRESENTATION IDENTITY
Strength, pack and device identity
Package strength is not an individual dose. These fields help identify the exact labelled product; they do not calculate how much, how often, a missed-use action, splitting, switching or conversion.
1 source-backed strength, pack or device records — open the full list
First match the market, dosage form and labelled amount on the pack in hand. The number of tablets, sachets or devices in a pack is not a personal dose or schedule.
United States label · FDA U.S. historical oral-tablet label (May 2020; not a current-package or availability finding)
400 mg per tablet; 30-tablet bottle (U.S. historical label)
Source-text identity card: no displayable exact official package image. The fields below come from the cited label and are not a visual authentication result.
- Product code
- NDC 50419-530-01
- Form and route
- moxifloxacin oblong dull-red film-coated oral tablet · oral
- moxifloxacin
- 400 mghistorical labelled amount per tablet; not an individual tablet count or dose
- Package
- 30 tablets per bottle
- Labelled appearance
- dull red · oblong film-coated tablet · imprint BAYER / M400
PACKAGE-VISUAL STATUS
A repackaged historical label was located, so it is not shown as an original-brand package
The DailyMed AVELOX ABC PACK historical label lists RedPharm Drug Inc. as the packager. Even where the label includes AVELOX and Bayer wording, that repackaged historical label cannot be presented as this record's original-brand package image; it is therefore not shown here.
LABEL READING · NOT A PRESCRIPTION
AVELOX label reading: a 400 mg oral tablet and an intravenous product cannot be inferred from the same number
Reading level: drug-specific label reading. This record has been expanded around its dosage form or a higher-risk reading question; the current target-market label and professional review still apply.
This module uses the 2020 U.S. FDA AVELOX public label as a reading entry point. The file includes both oral tablets and intravenous products; this page only helps identify the 400 mg oral tablet’s brand, generic, dosage form, route and warning locations. It does not decide whether an individual needs an antibacterial medicine or create a tablet count, course, switching or combination plan.
- First check AVELOX, moxifloxacin, 400 mg, oral tablet and target market together. 400 mg is an identity field for that oral tablet, not an answer to how many tablets anyone should use today, for how long, or whether leftovers can be continued.
- The same FDA file also lists an intravenous product. Oral tablets and intravenous infusions differ in dosage form, route and handling requirements; intravenous-bag wording, oral-tablet numbers and another moxifloxacin or fluoroquinolone product must not be converted across one another.
- The FDA label includes warnings about serious fluoroquinolone reactions, heart-rhythm risk and interactions. With acute or serious symptoms such as tendon pain or swelling, numbness or tingling, marked neurologic or mental-status change, palpitations or fainting, breathing difficulty, rash, or swelling of the face or mouth, use timely local medical support rather than switching to another antibacterial medicine or continuing based on a webpage.
- Whether an antibacterial medicine is needed, which one is selected, route and course must be determined from the specific infection, testing, individual circumstances, complete medicine list and current target-market label. Especially with products that affect heart rhythm, glucose or anticoagulation, mineral-containing supplements, or multiple prescription/OTC products, bring the actual pack to a clinician or pharmacist for review.
PHARMACOVIGILANCE · OFFICIAL ROUTES
Check safety information in the right market
Start with the public label or product record linked to this dossier, then use the official safety routes below for the market that applies to the medicine in hand.
Match five details before using a safety record
- Brand and generic nameBoth must match the medicine named by the record.
- Dosage form and strengthTablet, capsule, injection, inhaler, patch and eye drop are not interchangeable.
- Market and notice dateA record applies only to the country or region and date it names.
- Lot, pack and manufacturerRecord these only when the official notice specifically names them.
- Current product informationA historical record may have been superseded by the current label.
This checklist only helps organise the right question. It does not create a personal conclusion about stopping, switching, dose, combination or suitability.
This dossier’s product-level source checkFDA · United States · Regulatory product record or label archive · 2026-08-20
This dossier’s publicly accessible product-level route has been checked individually. It does not mean that real-time alerts in every country or region have been searched, or that the medicine has or does not have a current risk.
Markets actually represented by the reviewed product documents
- United States · 1
This is a document-coverage summary, not a claim that the medicine is authorised, supplied, interchangeable or actively monitored in every listed market today.
This record’s label or product-record routeFDA: AVELOX 2020 U.S. prescribing information (NDA 021085 / 021277) ↗Historical public record · reviewed 2026-08-20
Reviewed official safety records
A dated record is not automatically a current alert. Read the named product, form, batch, market, date and source type before treating it as relevant.
- FDA Drug Safety Communication: peripheral-neuropathy label updates for systemic fluoroquinolones2013-08-15 · On 2013-08-15, FDA issued a Drug Safety Communication requiring clearer peripheral-neuropathy information in labels and Medication Guides for systemic (oral or injectable) fluoroquinolones. The notice explicitly lists Levaquin, Cipro and Avelox, and says this risk may occur soon after treatment starts and may persist. This is a dated U.S. class communication; it does not turn class membership into an individual stop, switch, dosage-form conversion or symptom-attribution conclusion. With acute or concerning pain, burning, tingling, numbness, weakness or altered sensation, use local medical support and have a professional check the actual product and complete medicine list.Primary-source record (open linked document) ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
Global official safety gateways
- NMPA Centre for Drug Reevaluation · Mainland ChinaPrimary NMPA Drug Evaluation Centre gateway for drug-vigilance bulletins, safety notices and adverse-reaction monitoring. Exact products still require checking approval number, dosage form, strength, authorisation holder and notice date item by item.Drug-vigilance bulletins and safety notices ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- FDA · United StatesPrimary FDA pages for important new safety issues, labelling changes and risk communications.Drug Safety Communications ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- FDA MedWatch · United StatesU.S. MedWatch safety-information and reporting gateway; a report does not itself establish causality.Safety information and serious-problem reporting ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- EMA · European Union / European Economic AreaOfficial EU gateway for pharmacovigilance, suspected adverse-reaction reports and PRAC safety assessment.Pharmacovigilance overview and EudraVigilance ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- MHRA · United KingdomPrimary UK MHRA medicine-safety updates for professionals and the public.Drug Safety Update ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- PMDA · JapanPMDA’s English official safety gateway; exact products still require checking against the Japanese product page and current documents.Medicine safety information ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- MFDS · Republic of KoreaMFDS’s primary index for medicine safety letters in the Republic of Korea. The original notices are in Korean and must be read against the named product, dosage form, market and date; they do not automatically apply in another market or decide an individual case.Medicine safety letters ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- HSA · SingaporeHSA’s public Singapore gateway for suspected adverse-event reporting and medicine-safety information. A report does not itself establish individual causality; exact products still require checking Singapore registration status, dosage form, strength, date and current product information.Adverse-event reporting and medicine-safety information ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- Health Canada · CanadaHealth Canada’s public MedEffect gateway for medicine and health-product advisories, warnings, recalls, reporting and safety information. Exact products still require checking market, dosage form, strength, notice date and lot item by item.MedEffect Canada: advisories, warnings and recalls ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- TGA · AustraliaPrimary Australian TGA safety alerts, advisories and monitoring information for therapeutic products.Medicine safety alerts ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- Swissmedic · SwitzerlandOfficial Swissmedic gateway for pharmacovigilance, signal assessment and suspected adverse-reaction reporting; a report or signal does not itself confirm individual causality.Pharmacovigilance and suspected adverse-reaction reporting ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- Medsafe · New ZealandNew Zealand Medsafe gateway for public and professional medicine safety communications and archives; older notices may have been superseded by current product information.Medicine safety communications ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- SAHPRA · South AfricaSAHPRA’s safety-information, alerts and pharmacovigilance gateway for the public and professionals in South Africa. An official alert does not itself mean a product is unsafe in every circumstance; exact products still require checking South African registration status, dosage form, strength, notice date and current product information.Medicine safety information, alerts and pharmacovigilance ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- WHO · GlobalWHO’s cross-market safety-alert archive; every historical notice must be read against its date, named product and market.Medicine and vaccine safety-alert archive ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
- Anvisa · BrazilAnvisa’s primary Brazilian pharmacovigilance gateway for alerts, bulletins, risk communication and VigiMed reporting. Exact products still require checking Brazilian authorisation status, dosage form, strength and notice date item by item.Pharmacovigilance, alerts and VigiMed ↗reviewed 2026-08-22
This card brings together the medicine-specific product route and 15 market-level official vigilance gateways. It does not mean real-time alerts for this medicine have been searched in every country or region, or that the medicine has a new alert, recall or risk conclusion. Match brand, generic name, dosage form, strength, market and notice date item by item; do not self-stop, switch, increase or reduce use from a headline.
For severe or rapidly worsening symptoms, suspected overdose, a severe allergic reaction, loss of consciousness or another emergency, use local emergency services. Do not wait for an online alert search or change a medicine from this page.
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Six checks for this medicine pack
Use this card to organise questions about Avelox (moxifloxacin). Keep the exact pack, its current label and the full medicine list together.
Identify the exact product
Avelox is the brand in this record and moxifloxacin is the active-ingredient name. Check both with the dosage form (Dosage form and presentation as documented in the linked primary label) and the market on the actual pack.
Read the labelled strength in context
mg, mcg, mg/mL or a percentage describes the labelled amount in one tablet, capsule, measured volume, spray or other unit. It is not an answer to how many units a person should take.
Check before splitting or opening
Before splitting, crushing, chewing or opening anything, find an explicit instruction for this exact product in its current label and ask a pharmacist. A score line or a previous pack is not enough by itself.
Put every product on one list
Include prescriptions, over-the-counter products, eye drops, creams, vitamins, minerals, herbs and supplements. A pharmacist or prescriber needs the whole list before any combination, alternation, switch or stop is considered.
Ask a specific pharmacogenetics question
Ask which medicine, which gene and what clinical decision a result could change. A gene–drug association does not mean broad genetic testing is needed for everyone and must not be used to change treatment without professional review.
Know when to seek urgent help
For a suspected overdose, a severe allergic reaction, fainting or difficulty breathing, use the local emergency or poison-information service now. Do not wait for a website reply or alter several medicines to test what caused it.
This card does not calculate a dose, decide whether medicines can be combined, or replace a clinician or pharmacist. Market-specific current labels and the person's full context still need review.
HOW IT WORKS · NOT A TREATMENT PLAN
How moxifloxacin works: it interferes with two enzymes needed for bacterial DNA replication
- “Interferes with bacterial DNA” is not an infection diagnosis, culture result or medicine-selection conclusion. Whether an antibacterial medicine is needed still depends on the specific infection, testing, individual circumstances and current target-market label.
- Being in the fluoroquinolone class or sharing a pathway does not make AVELOX self-combinable, switchable, substitutable or milligram-convertible with levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin or another antibacterial medicine. Product identity, route, strength, interactions and current prescription must each be checked separately.
- A mechanism page also cannot decide combination, switching, stopping or course length. With multiple medicines, symptoms or a contemplated change, take the actual pack and complete medicine list to a clinician or pharmacist for review.
SOURCE EVIDENCE REGISTER
Source evidence map
Every public link is labelled with its market, document status and document type. A historical public record is not a current label, and an official lookup entry is not a product-specific record.
- FDA: AVELOX 2020 U.S. prescribing information (NDA 021085 / 021277) ↗Historical public record · reviewed 2026-08-20
- FDA Drugs@FDA official search entry ↗Official lookup entry · reviewed 2026-08-20
SOURCE-TRACEABLE ARCHIVE
Aveloxmoxifloxacin
This page links to public primary-source material for Avelox. The archive is historical or documentary evidence only; it does not by itself establish originator status, product quality, current labelling, availability or sale eligibility.
DOCUMENT TIMELINE
Document timeline
Initial U.S. approval year listed in the FDA label
The FDA label archive linked here lists Initial U.S. Approval: 1999. This historical locator is not a conclusion about current approval, availability, holder or another market.
FDA: AVELOX tablet and injection label archive ↗FDA label archive version
This page links the 2020-05 FDA label archive as a traceable reading entry point. Current labeling, strength, indication and safety information require separate verification against the target market’s current document.
FDA: AVELOX tablet and injection label archive ↗
MARKET SCOPE
Market-record boundary
United States
Public label archive linkedOnly the FDA document listed on this page is linked.
Mainland China, EU, Japan
Market record not establishedNo local approval, holder, strength, supply or sale-eligibility conclusion is inferred from the U.S. label archive.
How to read this record
Read each document in its stated market, date and dosage-form context. A historical record is not a current label and does not support individual medical, substitution or purchasing conclusions.
Keep international and mainland China records separate
This page has a U.S. public history/regulatory archive but no mainland China record for this specific product. That does not establish whether the medicine exists, is approved or is available in mainland China. Verify product identity, dosage form, strength, holder and the current label item by item.
RECORD FAQ
Record questions
Does a label archive represent current product information?
Not automatically. The archive locates a source; each point needs verification against the target market’s current official label.
Why are price and originator/generic conclusions not shown?
Those conclusions require separately complete and human-reviewed product, dosage-form, strength, pack, market, date and primary-record fields; one label file is insufficient.
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Evidence status
The listed links are public sources selected for traceability. They must be rechecked against the current target-market record before any use beyond reading and research.