Is Crestor gluten-free?
Looks mostly clean — worth verifying with the maker. Mostly yes — but worth a quick call to the manufacturer for some generics. Of 18 product labels we checked, 10 are clean, 1 are confirmed gluten-free by the maker, and 7 contain an inactive ingredient (typically a source-ambiguous starch) whose botanical origin isn't fully disclosed. None contained confirmed gluten.
Drug context
About Crestor
Crestor is a brand name for rosuvastatin — the brand-name rosuvastatin statin. The active ingredient is the same across brand and generic versions, but inactive ingredients (excipients) can differ between manufacturers, which is the whole point of this page.
Why this matters
Different manufacturers, different ingredients
Generics of Crestor use the same active ingredient, but they aren't required to use the same inactive ingredients. Your pharmacy may switch which manufacturer they dispense between fills, sometimes without telling you. The list below shows each manufacturer's product label as a separate entry, because that's the granularity that actually matters when you're celiac.
The labels
The 18 we checked
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01Mylan manufacturer-attested gluten-free
Manufacturer confirmed gluten-free (Plogsted 2019-04-23)
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02Actavis worth a call to confirmView source label →
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03Apotex worth a call to confirmView source label →
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04Ascend worth a call to confirmView source label →
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05Aurobindo worth a call to confirmView source label →
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06Cadila worth a call to confirmView source label →
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07Camber worth a call to confirmView source label →
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08Glenmark worth a call to confirmView source label →
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09AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE (120 .MU.M) · FERRIC OXIDE RED · FERRIC OXIDE YELLOW · HYPROMELLOSE, UNSPECIFIED · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN · TRIBASIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE
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10Northwind Health Company, LLC nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE (120 .MU.M) · FERRIC OXIDE RED · FERRIC OXIDE YELLOW · HYPROMELLOSE, UNSPECIFIED · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM OXIDE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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11Quallent Pharmaceuticals Health LLC nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE (35 .MU.M) · FD&C BLUE NO. 2 · FD&C RED NO. 40 · FD&C YELLOW NO. 6 · HYPROMELLOSE 2910 (15 MPA.S) · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MANNITOL · MEGLUMINE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE 102 · STARCH, CORN · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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12Umedica Laboratories USA Inc. nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE, UNSPECIFIED · FERRIC OXIDE RED · HYPROMELLOSE 2910 (15 MPA.S) · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE · SODIUM BICARBONATE · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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13Northwind Health Company, LLC nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients ANHYDROUS DIBASIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE · CROSPOVIDONE (120 .MU.M) · FERRIC OXIDE RED · HYPROMELLOSE 2910 (15 MPA.S) · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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14Northwind Health Company, LLC nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE (120 .MU.M) · FERRIC OXIDE RED · HYPROMELLOSE, UNSPECIFIED · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE · SODIUM BICARBONATE · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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15Northwind Health Company, LLC nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE (35 .MU.M) · FD&C BLUE NO. 2 · FD&C RED NO. 40 · FD&C YELLOW NO. 6 · HYPROMELLOSE 2910 (15 MPA.S) · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MANNITOL · MEGLUMINE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE 102 · STARCH, CORN · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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16Quallent Pharmaceuticals Health LLC nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE (120 .MU.M) · FERRIC OXIDE RED · FERRIC OXIDE YELLOW · HYPROMELLOSE, UNSPECIFIED · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM OXIDE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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17Northwind Health Company, LLC nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE (120 .MU.M) · FERRIC OXIDE RED · HYPROMELLOSE, UNSPECIFIED · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE · SODIUM BICARBONATE · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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18Northwind Health Company, LLC nothing flagged on the label
Inactive ingredients CROSPOVIDONE (35 .MU.M) · FD&C BLUE NO. 2 · FD&C RED NO. 40 · FD&C YELLOW NO. 6 · HYPROMELLOSE 2910 (15 MPA.S) · LACTOSE MONOHYDRATE · MAGNESIUM STEARATE · MANNITOL · MEGLUMINE · MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE 102 · STARCH, CORN · TITANIUM DIOXIDE · TRIACETIN
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Background
What “gluten in a medication” actually means
Gluten enters drugs through their excipients — the inactive ingredients used to bind, coat, fill, or stabilize the dose. The main concern is wheat starch as a filler. Source-ambiguous starches (plain “starch”, pregelatinized starch, sodium starch glycolate, modified starch) get flagged for verification because their botanical origin isn't always disclosed on the label.
The 2024 Mangione et al. pediatric NDC analysis (689 NDCs across the top 100 pediatric medications) found 1.5% contained gluten outright; another 25.7% couldn't be confirmed either way. Liquid and oral-suspension formulations carry disproportionate risk because wheat starch is a common thickener. Full methodology →
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