		DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES			Public Health Service

																			Food and Drug Administration

		Rockville MD 20857



March 1, 2007

Robert W. Pollock

Lachman Consultant Services, Inc. 

1600 Stewart Avenue

Westbury, New York 11590

Dear Mr. Pollock:

Your petition requesting the Food and Drug Administration to declare
that the drug product Metoprolol Tartrate Tablets USP, 37.5 mg and 75 mg
is suitable for consideration in an abbreviated new drug application
(ANDA), was received by this office on 03/01/2007.  It was assigned
docket number 2007P-0072/CP1 and it was filed on 03/01/2007.  Please
refer to this docket number in future correspondence on this subject
with the Agency.

Please note that the acceptance of the petition for filing is a
procedural matter in that it in no way reflects an agency decision on
the substantive merits of the petition.

Sincerely,

Gloria Ortega

Division of Dockets Management

Office of Management Programs

Office of Management





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