Where do I find the current FDA-approved prescribing information (package insert) for Humira (adalimumab), and what does it cover?
Where to find it: The current FDA-approved prescribing information for Humira is AbbVie's own label on DailyMed (the NLM's repository of FDA labeling), set ID 608d4f0d-b19f-46d3-749a-7159aa5f933d. It is titled "HUMIRA (ADALIMUMAB) KIT [ABBVIE INC.]", has an effective date of 23 December 2025, and is marked "Revised: 12/2025" [1]. It is licensed under BLA 125057 (351(a), AbbVie Inc., US licence 1889, CDER), first approved 31 December 2002 [2].
Approach: I searched DailyMed's current labels for "Humira" and the FDA Purple Book (August 2026 edition) for BLA 125057. I compared the three Humira labels DailyMed returned by labeler, effective date and section list.
Which DailyMed label to use
| Labeler | Effective | Revised | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| AbbVie Inc. (BLA holder) | 2025-12-23 | 12/2025 | Reference label [1] |
| Cordavis Limited | 2025-12-23 | 12/2025 | Same content as AbbVie's [3] |
| A-S Medication Solutions (relabeler) | 2024-05-16 | 02/2021 | Out of date: it still lists the discontinued vial and older strengths [4] |
What the current label covers (from AbbVie's label [1])
- Recent major change: Warnings and Precautions, Autoimmunity (5.9), dated 7/2025. It now tells prescribers to stop Humira if a lupus-like syndrome or autoimmune hepatitis develops. The 2021 relabeler version only mentions lupus-like syndrome [4].
- Boxed warning, serious infections: TB (including reactivation of latent TB), invasive fungal infections, and opportunistic bacterial and viral infections. Patients must be tested for latent TB before and during therapy.
- Boxed warning, malignancy: lymphoma in children and adolescents, and postmarketing cases of hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (HSTCL), mostly in young patients with inflammatory bowel disease who were also taking azathioprine or 6-MP.
- 1 Indications: Humira is a TNF blocker indicated for:
- rheumatoid arthritis (adults)
- polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (age 2 and up)
- psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis (adults)
- Crohn's disease (adults and age 6 and up)
- ulcerative colitis (adults and age 5 and up). The label notes it has not been shown to work in patients who lost response to, or could not tolerate, TNF blockers.
- plaque psoriasis (adults)
- hidradenitis suppurativa (age 12 and up)
- non-infectious intermediate, posterior and panuveitis (age 2 and up)
- 2 Dosage and Administration: TB evaluation first (2.1), dosing for each indication (2.2 to 2.7), and general administration (2.8).
- 3 Dosage forms:
- pen: 80 mg/0.8 mL, 40 mg/0.8 mL and 40 mg/0.4 mL
- prefilled glass syringe: 80/0.8, 40/0.8, 40/0.4, 20/0.2 and 10/0.1 (mg/mL)
- 4 Contraindications: none.
- 5 Warnings and Precautions (5.1 to 5.11):
- serious infections and malignancies
- hypersensitivity
- hepatitis B reactivation
- neurologic reactions (demyelination)
- cytopenias
- heart failure
- autoimmunity
- immunizations
- higher infection risk when combined with anakinra or abatacept
- Remaining sections:
- 6 Adverse reactions, including immunogenicity and postmarketing experience
- 7 Drug interactions: methotrexate, other biologics, live vaccines and CYP450 substrates
- 8 Specific populations: pregnancy, lactation, children and older adults
- 10 to 13: overdosage, description, clinical pharmacology and nonclinical toxicology
- 14 Clinical studies, sections 14.1 to 14.12 covering every indication
- 15 References, 16 How supplied/storage, 17 Patient counseling
- the Instructions for Use for each device are at the end of the document
Licensed presentations (Purple Book):
- Still marketed (Rx): products 001, 002, 006 to 011 [2][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Discontinued: the 40 mg/0.8 mL vial (004) and the 20 mg/0.4 mL and 10 mg/0.2 mL syringes (003, 005) [12][13][14]
- Orphan exclusivity: expires 24 February 2028 [5]
I can pull the full text of any section next, for example the Section 2 dosing for each indication or the 5.9 autoimmunity wording.
SOURCES · 14
- [1]HUMIRA (ADALIMUMAB) KIT [ABBVIE INC.] · p.1NLM
- [2]125057_001:0, BLA 125057 product 001 · p.1FDA
- [3]HUMIRA (ADALIMUMAB) KIT [CORDAVIS LIMITED] · p.1NLM
- [4]HUMIRA (ADALIMUMAB) KIT [A-S MEDICATION SOLUTIONS] · p.1NLM
- [5]125057_002:0, BLA 125057 product 002 · p.1FDA
- [6]125057_006:0, BLA 125057 product 006 · p.1FDA
- [7]125057_007:0, BLA 125057 product 007 · p.1FDA
- [8]125057_008:0, BLA 125057 product 008 · p.1FDA
- [9]125057_009:0, BLA 125057 product 009 · p.1FDA
- [10]125057_010:0, BLA 125057 product 010 · p.1FDA
- [11]125057_011:0, BLA 125057 product 011 · p.1FDA
- [12]125057_004:0, BLA 125057 product 004 · p.1FDA
- [13]125057_003:0, BLA 125057 product 003 · p.1FDA
- [14]125057_005:0, BLA 125057 product 005 · p.1FDA