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Who makes Kirkland Signature Aller-Tec (Cetirizine HCl 10 mg), 365 Tablets?

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Perrigo
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As of August 30, 2026, the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature Aller-Tec (Cetirizine HCl 10 mg), 365 Tablets is Perrigo, per plant / registration code evidence.

Verified August 30, 2026
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The common claim

What most answers say — and what the evidence supports

Store-brand roundups and Costco-shopper threads generally credit Perrigo - the largest US maker of private-label OTC drugs - and note the pills work like Zyrtec. FDA drug records line up with that across the whole Aller-Tec family: the adult cetirizine 10 mg tablet (NDC 63981-458) is marketed under ANDA 078336 and the children's cetirizine syrup (NDC 63981-475) under ANDA 204226, both with a Drugs@FDA sponsor of Perrigo, while the cetirizine-D combo (NDC 63981-147) sits under ANDA 210719, held by Perrigo Pharma International DAC, a Perrigo entity. Costco's own product listing for the 365-count tablet independently carries "L Perrigo Company" in its manufacturer field. Costco's own listing and the FDA application records agree: Aller-Tec is manufactured by Perrigo, per Costco's product-catalog manufacturer field (L. Perrigo Company) corroborated by the Perrigo-held ANDAs across the Aller-Tec family. The ANDA holder is FDA's responsible party rather than a guaranteed physical packer, so the attribution rests on the two routes agreeing. Note that Aller-Tec (cetirizine, a Zyrtec-type antihistamine) is a different drug from Costco's AllerClear (loratadine, a Claritin-type antihistamine).

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Evidence & sources

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Tier 3 DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine) KIRKLAND SIGNATURE ALLER TEC ALLERGY - cetirizine hydrochloride tablet, film coated (DailyMed SPL) Published · accessed August 1, 2026
DailyMed's FDA-sourced Structured Product Label is titled "KIRKLAND SIGNATURE ALLER TEC ALLERGY- cetirizine hydrochloride tablet, film coated", names Costco Wholesale Company as the labeler, lists NDC 63981-458 and active ingredient cetirizine HCl 10 mg, and in Marketing Information gives Marketing Category "ANDA" with Application Number ANDA078336. No establishment other than Costco appears on the SPL, so the deterministic maker link runs through the ANDA number (resolved to Perrigo in the sibling Drugs@FDA source) rather than an on-label "manufactured by" line. This is the brand-to-ANDA anchor for the flagship 365-count Aller-Tec tablet (Costco's cetirizine generic of Zyrtec).
Tier 3 U.S. Food & Drug Administration (openFDA Drugs@FDA) Drugs@FDA record for ANDA 078336 (cetirizine HCl allergy tablets), sponsor Perrigo Published · accessed August 1, 2026
FDA's Drugs@FDA database resolves ANDA078336 - the application under which Costco markets the plain Aller-Tec cetirizine HCl 10 mg tablet (NDC 63981-458) - to sponsor/applicant "PERRIGO R AND D". The application's openFDA index carries brand name "KIRKLAND SIGNATURE ALLER TEC ALLERGY" and NDC 63981-458 alongside dozens of other retailers' store brands sharing the same ANDA. Perrigo is the largest US maker of private-label OTC drugs. On its own this is an indirect two-table NDC-to-ANDA-to-sponsor join (the ANDA applicant is FDA's responsible party but not always the physical packer); it is corroborated by Costco's own catalog manufacturer field (next source), which is what carries the record to confirmed (DECISIONS 2026-08-30). Independent corroboration that Perrigo runs this exact cetirizine line: FDA recall D-0525-2016 (Class III, 2015) covered "Cetirizine HCl 10 mg Tablet, 14 count blister packs" distributed by Perrigo (Allegan, MI) under GoodSense and roughly twenty retailer store brands, each carrying the shared "-458" product-code segment (Kroger 30142-458, HEB 37808-458, Safeway 21130-458, CVS 59779-458) - the same segment as Costco's 63981-458 - though that recall did not name Kirkland itself.
Tier 4 Costco Wholesale Kirkland Signature Aller-Tec, 365 Tablets (Costco product-listing data) Published · accessed August 1, 2026
Costco's own product page for the flagship Aller-Tec 365-tablet item (11312465) embeds catalog JSON whose manufacturer field reads mfName: "L PERRIGO COMPANY" - L. Perrigo Company being Perrigo's principal US operating company (Allegan, MI). Read from the 2026-03-05 Wayback snapshot (costco.com blocks automated fetch; the snapshot was verified to contain the field). An internal catalog field rather than an editorial statement, and such fields can name a supplier-of-record; here it independently corroborates the FDA ANDA route, both naming Perrigo, which satisfies the mfName-plus-independent-naming rule for confirmed (DECISIONS 2026-08-30).
Tier 3 U.S. Food & Drug Administration (openFDA Drugs@FDA) Drugs@FDA record for ANDA 210719 (cetirizine + pseudoephedrine ER), sponsor Perrigo Pharma International DAC Published · accessed August 1, 2026
Resolves ANDA210719 - the application behind Kirkland Signature Aller-Tec D (cetirizine HCl 5 mg / pseudoephedrine HCl 120 mg extended-release tablets, NDC 63981-147) - to sponsor "PPI-DAC", i.e. Perrigo Pharma International Designated Activity Company, Perrigo's Ireland-domiciled entity (Perrigo Company plc is headquartered in Dublin; "DAC" is the Irish designated-activity-company form). The application's openFDA index carries brand name "KIRKLAND SIGNATURE ALLER TEC D" and NDC 63981-147, and its labeler roster includes "L. Perrigo Company" - so the cetirizine-D combo traces to the same corporate parent (Perrigo) as the plain tablet, not to a separate maker. Indirect two-table join; corroborating. Unlike the loratadine sibling AllerClear-D (whose combo was recalled as an Ohm/Sun lot), the Aller-Tec D application stays entirely within Perrigo.
Tier 3 U.S. Food & Drug Administration (openFDA Drugs@FDA) Drugs@FDA record for ANDA 204226 (children's cetirizine HCl oral solution), sponsor Perrigo Published · accessed August 1, 2026
Resolves ANDA204226 - the application behind Kirkland Signature Children's Aller-Tec (cetirizine HCl 5 mg/5 mL oral solution, NDC 63981-475) - to sponsor "PERRIGO R AND D". openFDA lists brand "KIRKLAND SIGNATURE CHILDRENS ALLER TEC" and NDC 63981-475 under this application. Same Perrigo sponsor as the adult tablet (ANDA078336); indirect two-table join, corroborating.
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Frequently asked

Who makes Kirkland Signature Aller-Tec?
FDA drug records and Costco's own listing both point to Perrigo. Costco markets the adult Aller-Tec cetirizine 10 mg tablet under ANDA 078336, whose Drugs@FDA applicant is Perrigo - the largest US private-label OTC drugmaker - and Costco's product page for the 365-count bottle carries "L Perrigo Company" in its manufacturer field. Kirkland Signature Aller-Tec is manufactured by Perrigo, per Costco's product-catalog manufacturer field for the 365-count bottle (L. Perrigo Company) and FDA's Drugs@FDA record for ANDA 078336. Costco distributes under its own label, so Perrigo's name does not appear on the bottle itself.
Is Kirkland Aller-Tec the same as Zyrtec?
They share the same active ingredient - cetirizine HCl 10 mg - and meet the same FDA generic standard, which is why Aller-Tec works like Zyrtec. But they are different products: Zyrtec is a Kenvue brand, while Aller-Tec is Costco's store-brand cetirizine, marketed under a Perrigo-held ANDA. Same drug, different maker and label.
What is the difference between Kirkland Aller-Tec and Kirkland AllerClear?
They are different allergy drugs. Aller-Tec is Costco's store-brand cetirizine HCl (the same antihistamine as Zyrtec); AllerClear is Costco's store-brand loratadine (the same antihistamine as Claritin). Both sell as Kirkland Signature and FDA records tie both lines to Perrigo-held ANDAs, but they are not interchangeable - cetirizine and loratadine are distinct second-generation antihistamines with different onset and drowsiness profiles.
Has Kirkland Aller-Tec been recalled?
No FDA recall names Kirkland Signature Aller-Tec or any Costco-labeled cetirizine product (FDA enforcement database, checked August 2026). A 2015 Perrigo recall (D-0525-2016) covered cetirizine 10 mg tablets sold under GoodSense and about twenty retailer store brands for an impurity specification failure, but Costco's Kirkland line was not on that recall list.
Prefer the name brand? Zyrtec Allergy Relief (cetirizine HCl 10 mg) The closest name-brand equivalent to this Kirkland Signature product.

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