AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON MARCH 15, 2005
                                                      Registration No. 333-64734
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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                         POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1
                                    FORM S-3
             REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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                             ABLE LABORATORIES, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

             DELAWARE                                         04-3029787
  (STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION                             (I.R.S. EMPLOYER
OF INCORPORATION OR ORGANIZATION)                        IDENTIFICATION NUMBER)

                                  1 ABLE DRIVE
                           CRANBURY, NEW JERSEY 08512
                                 (609) 495-2800
          (ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING
            AREA CODE, OF REGISTRANT'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)

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                              DHANANJAY G. WADEKAR
                             CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                             ABLE LABORATORIES, INC.
                                  1 ABLE DRIVE
                           CRANBURY, NEW JERSEY 08512
                                 (609) 495-2800
            (NAME, ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER,
                   INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)

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                                   COPIES TO:
                            GERARD P. O'CONNOR, ESQ.
                                 FOLEY HOAG LLP
                              155 SEAPORT BOULEVARD
                           BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02210
                                 (617) 832-1249

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     Able Laboratories, Inc. registered 1,733,333 shares of its common stock,
par value $.01 per share, under this Registration Statement for resale by
certain stockholders. Able Laboratories hereby removes from registration all of
the shares of its common stock, $.01 par value per share, registered pursuant to
its Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-64734) for sale from time to
time by the selling stockholders named in such Registration Statement which have
not been sold as of the time of filing of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1.

                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement No. 333-64734 to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Cranbury,
State of New Jersey, March 15, 2005.


                                       ABLE LABORATORIES, INC.

                                       By: /s/ Dhananjay G. Wadekar
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                                           Chief Executive Officer