Tag: animal/pet meds
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Researchers Identify Drug Residues in Baby Food
University of Almeria researchers have reportedly used a new “multi-residue” technique to identify veterinary drug residues in baby food, raising concerns about the need to better regulate the substances permitted in animal-based products. M.M. Aguilera-Luiz, et al., “Multiclass method for fast determination of veterinary drug residues in baby food by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass…
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FDA Takes Further Action to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Livestock
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released industry guidance and a draft regulation about a new voluntary initiative intended to decrease the use of antimicrobials in agricultural animals. According to an April 11, 2012, press release, FDA has issued final guidance for industry titled “The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals,”…
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FDA Releases Guidance on Veterinary Medicines
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the availability of industry guidance concerning drugs for veterinary care. The guidance provides “recommendations on what documentation to submit to support the CMC [Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls] information for fermentation-derived intermediates, drug substances, and related drug products for veterinary medicinal use.” Noting that a variety of products are…
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FDA Restricts Use of Cephalosporin in Livestock
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule prohibiting the extra-label use of cephalosporin antimicrobial drugs in livestock. Citing “evidence that certain extralabel uses… will likely cause an adverse event in humans,” the agency has specifically barred using cephalosporins (i) “at unapproved dose levels, frequencies, durations, or routes of administration”; (ii)…
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FDA Denies Requests to Prohibit Use of Certain Antibiotics in Food Animals
After a coalition of advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking an order compelling the agency to rule on 1999 and 2005 petitions that asked the agency to withdraw approval of certain antimicrobial drugs in food animal production, the agency finally acted. Information about the lawsuit appears in Issue…
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FDA Announces 2012-2016 Food and Veterinary Medicine Strategic Plan
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced the availability of its draft Foods and Veterinary Medicine Strategic Plan 2012 – 2016, which takes into account “all of the activities within the jurisdictions of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the Center for Veterinary Medicine and includes activities supported by the Office…
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FDA’s Animal-Drug Rule Amendment Allows More Progesterone Residues in Meat
Asserting that its technical animal drug-regulation amendment is not subject to congressional review, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that increases the allowable residues of progesterone in edible tissues of cattle and sheep to reflect revised daily consumption values in a 1994 guidance document. According to the Federal Register notice,…
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FSIS Finds Unapproved Drugs in Veal, Seeks Permanent Injunction Against Producer
Alleging that tissue samples from Virtue Calves veal sold for slaughter since 1995 have contained illegal drug residues, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has sued the producer and its owners in a California federal court seeking an order to stop the defendants from selling food containing an unsafe new…