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It's now official. If diet drug Acomplia (rimonabant) is ultimately approved for sale in the United States, the prescription diet pill will go on the U.S. market not as Acomplia but as Zimulti.

Sanofi-Aventis, developer of rimonabant which is now sold in a number of European countries, Argentina and Mexico as Acomplia, has long been coy about what name it intends to use if the FDA approves the diet drug for U.S. sale.

But the pros-and-cons of rimonabant are cheduled to be aired by an FDA advisory panel on June 13th, and the official notice of the hearing published in the Federal Register says the panel will discuss "the efficacy and safety of new drug application (NDA) 21-888, proposed tradename Zimulti (rimonabant)."

The meeting notice published by the FDA Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee also is interesting in that would appear to dash suggestions made by some of Sanofi's favorite financial analysts that the FDA may now approve Acomplia / Zimulti for treatment of type 2 diabetes.