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NETSPOT™ Gallium Ga 68 Dotatate Kit Approved By FDA Using The GalliaPharm® Ge-68/Ga-68 Generator As The Source Of Gallium-68

June 2, 2016 – Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA - The radiopharmaceutical company headquartered in SAINT-GENIS-POUILLY, France) have obtained approval from the US FDA for their diagnostic imaging NETSPOT™ Gallium Ga 68 dotatate kit. The kit will be used for the labeling of 68Ga-68 dotatate for injection, for the localization of somatostatin receptor positive neuroendocrine tumors in adult and pediatric patients using Positron Emission Tomography (PET). NETSPOT™ is the first kit approved by the FDA that will utilize the improved imaging enabled by the PET emitting Ga-68, which is conveniently obtained from Eckert & Ziegler Radiopharma’s GalliaPharm® Ge-68/Ga-68 generator.

This successful kit approval links the Eckert & Ziegler GalliaPharm® Ge-68/Ga-68 generator as the source of the Ga-68 in the kit’s package insert (PI).

GalliaPharm® is the only Ge-68/Ga-68 generator registered as a medicinal product in several countries of the European Union.  For the USA a Type II Drug Master File (DMF No. 28741) was filed with the FDA.

GalliaPharm® meets all the strict requirements of the relevant EU pharmacopoeia monograph including sterility over the entire one-year shelf-life and the Ge-68 breakthrough limit (< 0.001%). These are essential factors for the patient safety and enable the usage of the GalliaPharm® generator for kit labeling for its appropriate medicinal use for PET.

Download the AAA press release here: http://www.adacap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/2016-06-02-PR-AAA-FDA-approves-NETspot-for-diagnosis-of-NETs-FINAL-ENG.pdf

About Eckert & Ziegler.
Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG (ISIN DE0005659700), with approximately 700 employees, is one of the world’s largest providers of isotope technology for radiation therapy and nuclear medicine. 
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For enquiries please contact:
Eckert & Ziegler Radiopharma GmbH
Jan Schöpflin, Marketing
Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0) 30 / 94 10 84-252, jan.schoepflin@dont-want-spam.ezag.de, www.ezag.de