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Kirkland Signature LaxaClear (Polyethylene Glycol 3350), 100 Doses Health Confirmed
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Who makes Kirkland Signature LaxaClear (Polyethylene Glycol 3350), 100 Doses?

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Perrigo
Citable fact

As of August 30, 2026, the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature LaxaClear (Polyethylene Glycol 3350), 100 Doses is Perrigo, per plant / registration code evidence.

Verified August 30, 2026
The common claim vs. the evidence

The common claim

What most answers say — and what the evidence supports

Costco does not editorially disclose who makes Kirkland Signature LaxaClear, and most roundups note only that it is a store-brand equivalent of MiraLAX without naming a maker. The regulatory trail and Costco's own catalog data both point to Perrigo: the product's FDA label (NDC 63981-306) ties it to application ANDA 090685, whose holder of record in Drugs@FDA is PPI-DAC (Perrigo Pharma International DAC, a Perrigo Company plc subsidiary); Perrigo announced FDA approval of this over-the-counter polyethylene glycol 3350 store-brand product in 2009; and Costco's own product listing for the two-bottle 100-dose item independently carries "L Perrigo Company" in its manufacturer field. The two routes agree: Kirkland Signature LaxaClear is manufactured by Perrigo, per Costco's product-catalog manufacturer field (L. Perrigo Company) corroborated by FDA's Drugs@FDA record for ANDA 090685. The application holder is FDA's responsible party rather than necessarily the plant that fills each package, which is why the retailer's own field naming the same company is what closes the attribution.

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Evidence & sources

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Tier 3 DailyMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine) KIRKLAND SIGNATURE LAXACLEAR ORIGINAL PRESCRIPTION STRENGTH (POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 3350) POWDER, FOR SOLUTION [COSTCO WHOLESALE COMPANY] Published October 3, 2025 · accessed August 1, 2026
FDA structured product label for Kirkland Signature LaxaClear, NDC 63981-306, labeler Costco Wholesale Company (103391843), citing application 'ANDA090685'. Establishes the NDC-to-application link; the label lists only Costco as labeler/packager and names no separate manufacturing establishment.
Tier 3 U.S. Food & Drug Administration (Drugs@FDA) Drugs@FDA: ANDA 090685, Polyethylene Glycol 3350 - Company: PPI-DAC Published October 6, 2009 · accessed August 1, 2026
Drugs@FDA application overview for ANDA 090685: 'Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA): 090685 Company: PPI-DAC'. PPI-DAC is the application holder of record, i.e. Perrigo Pharma International DAC, an Irish subsidiary of Perrigo Company plc. The NDC-to-application-to-sponsor join is indirect, and the application holder is FDA's responsible party rather than necessarily the plant that fills each package, so on its own this join would cap the attribution at probable; Costco's own catalog manufacturer field naming L. Perrigo Company for the same item (see the Costco Business Delivery source) is the independent corroboration that carries the record to confirmed (DECISIONS 2026-08-30). Drugs@FDA lists a Manufacturing (CMC) supplement (S-019) approved August 18, 2026; the sponsor is unchanged. A CMC supplement can be a manufacturing-site or process change and its content is not public, so the SPL is due a re-check for any new "Manufactured by" line.
Tier 4 Perrigo Company Perrigo Announces FDA Final Approval for Polyethylene Glycol 3350 Published October 6, 2009 · accessed August 1, 2026
Perrigo's own announcement, dated the ANDA 090685 approval date: Perrigo 'received final approval from the FDA for over-the-counter (OTC) Polyethylene Glycol 3350, Powder for Solution ... marketed under store brand labels and ... comparable to Schering-Plough HealthCare Products' MiraLAX(R).' Corroborates that Perrigo is the store-brand PEG 3350 applicant of record behind this application; it does not by itself name the plant that fills the Kirkland package.
Tier 4 Costco Wholesale Kirkland Signature LaxaClear, 29.9 oz, 2 Bottles of 50 Doses (Costco Business Delivery product-listing data) Published · accessed August 30, 2026
Costco's Business Delivery storefront (costcobusinessdelivery.com) serves the same US catalog data as costco.com and, unlike costco.com, can be fetched and archived. Its page for this item - 'Kirkland Signature LaxaClear, 29.9 oz, 2 Bottles of 50 Doses' (item 100296329) - embeds catalog JSON whose manufacturer field reads mfName: "L PERRIGO COMPANY", L. Perrigo Company being Perrigo's principal US operating company (Allegan, MI). Read on August 30, 2026 and verified present in the Wayback snapshot created the same day. An internal catalog field rather than an editorial statement, and such fields can name a supplier-of-record rather than the plant; here it independently corroborates the FDA route (NDC 63981-306 -> ANDA 090685 -> holder PPI-DAC, Perrigo Pharma International DAC) - the retailer naming Perrigo's US operating company and the regulator naming its Irish application-holding affiliate, two entities of the same group - which satisfies the mfName-plus-independent-naming rule for confirmed (DECISIONS 2026-08-30). The application holder remains FDA's responsible party rather than a guaranteed physical packer; the retailer's own field agreeing with it is what closes the attribution.
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Frequently asked

Who makes Kirkland Signature LaxaClear?
Costco doesn't disclose the maker editorially, but the FDA drug record and Costco's own catalog data both point to Perrigo. Kirkland Signature LaxaClear (NDC 63981-306) is marketed under FDA application ANDA 090685, whose sponsor of record is listed as PPI-DAC, i.e. Perrigo Pharma International DAC, an Irish subsidiary of Perrigo Company plc; Perrigo has held FDA approval for this over-the-counter polyethylene glycol 3350 store-brand laxative since 2009; and Costco's product listing for the two-bottle 100-dose item carries "L Perrigo Company" in its manufacturer field. Kirkland Signature LaxaClear is manufactured by Perrigo, per those sources. The application sponsor is not always the plant that fills each package, so it is the retailer's own field naming the same company that makes this a confirmed attribution rather than an inference from the drug-code trail alone.
Is Kirkland LaxaClear the same as MiraLAX?
They share the same active ingredient, polyethylene glycol 3350 at 17 grams per dose, and relieve occasional constipation the same way, so LaxaClear is a store-brand equivalent of MiraLAX. They are not the same brand: MiraLAX is a Bayer brand (originally Schering-Plough) sold at a premium, while LaxaClear is Costco's private-label version. The Kirkland version is manufactured by Perrigo, per FDA's application record and Costco's own product-listing data.
Has Kirkland LaxaClear ever been recalled?
A search of the FDA enforcement (recall) database in August 2026 found no recalls of Kirkland Signature LaxaClear or of Costco's polyethylene glycol 3350 laxative. A few other companies' polyethylene glycol 3350 products have had unrelated storage or labeling recalls, but none named the Kirkland product.
Prefer the name brand? MiraLAX The closest name-brand equivalent to this Kirkland Signature product.

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