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Roxane Laboratories, Inc. Announces the Approval of Morphine Sulfate Tablets and Oral Solution

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 14, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Roxane Laboratories, Inc. announced today the approval of its New Drug Application (NDA) for Morphine Sulfate Tablets and Oral Solution CII by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Roxane Laboratories' Morphine Sulfate CII is available in 15mg, 30mg tablet strengths and 10mg/5mL, 20mg/5mL oral solution strengths. Roxane Laboratories' Morphine Sulfate tablets and oral solutions CII are currently available for immediate shipment to wholesalers and pharmacies nationwide.

With this New Drug Application approval, Roxane Laboratories has the only FDA approved Morphine Sulfate Immediate Release Tablets and Oral Solution available for distribution in the United States.

Full prescribing information for Morphine Sulfate is available on the Roxane Laboratories website at http://www.Roxane.com or upon request by calling Roxane Laboratories Technical Product Information at 1.800.962.8364.

About Roxane Laboratories, Inc.

Roxane Laboratories is located in Columbus, OH in a modern 500,000 square foot manufacturing and laboratory facility. The facility spans 70 acres and currently employs over 1,000 people. Currently, Roxane Laboratories markets over 75 medications in nearly 250 package sizes, focusing on an expanding line of Multisource pharmaceutical products including: bulk and unit-dose liquids and solids; coated, sustained-release and controlled-release tablets; nasal sprays, cytotoxics and CII narcotics.

Roxane Laboratories, Inc., is a subsidiary of Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation, based in Ridgefield, CT and a member of the Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies.

About Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation based in Ridgefield, CT, is the US headquarters to seven subsidiaries and a member of the Boehringer Ingelheim group of companies.

The Boehringer Ingelheim group is one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, it operates globally with 135 affiliates in 47 countries and approximately 39,800 employees. Since it was founded in 1885, the family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.

In 2007, Boehringer Ingelheim posted net sales of US $15.0 billion (10.9 billion euro) while spending approximately one-fifth of net sales in its largest business segment, Prescription Medicines, on research and development.

For more information on Boehringer Ingelheim, please visit http://us.boehringer-ingelheim.com.

CONTACT: Jason Kurtz for Roxane Laboratories, Inc., +1-440-201-3668, jason.kurtz@boehringer-ingelheim.com

Web site: http://www.Roxane.com/http://us.boehringer-ingelheim.com/

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Posted: July 2008

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