In the US, a legal authorization for antibiotics to be given to animals in feed
A Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) is, under the law of the United States, a written authorization allowing animal keepers to use animal feed containing specified antibiotics in accordance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved directions for use.[1]
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A VeterinaryFeedDirective (VFD) is, under the law of the United States, a written authorization allowing animal keepers to use animal feed containing...
still subject to the VeterinaryFeedDirective. According to the American Feed Industry Association, as much as $20 billion worth of feed ingredients are purchased...
categories of animal feed drugs existed: over-the-counter or prescription. The ADAA introduced VeterinaryFeedDirective drugs. Medicated feeds are differentiated...
up VFD in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. VFD may refer to: VeterinaryFeedDirective, United States Volunteer fire department Vacuum fluorescent display...
the concept of a medicated feed, which is also available over-the-counter. The terminology for VeterinaryFeedDirective was introduced by the Act. According...
Services regulates drugs of the VeterinaryFeedDirective type that can be present within commercial livestock feed.[citation needed] Increasing intensities...
Food-Producing Animals" (PDF). Guidance for Industry (#209). 2012. "VeterinaryFeedDirective (VFD) Basics". AVMA. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017...
FDA issued the VeterinaryFeedDirective (VFD) final rule, under which veterinarians must authorize the use of antimicrobials within feed for the animals...
Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December 1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary...
Joseph J. (2016). "Effects and synergy of feed ingredients on canine neoplastic cell proliferation". BMC Veterinary Research. 12 (1): 159. doi:10.1186/s12917-016-0774-9...
PMID 690046. "Drugs Transitioning from Over-the-Counter (OTC) to VeterinaryFeedDirective (VFD) Status" (PDF). U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 19 Jan...
The Biocidal Products Directive (BPD) also known as the Biocides Directive is European Union Directive, (98/8/EC), which concerns biocides. It is officially...
tetracyclines in feed.[citation needed] 2012 – FDA finalized "Guidance for Industry #209", which was implemented under the VeterinaryFeedDirectives. These guidelines...
the range of recommended or acceptable dosages; the creation of VeterinaryFeedDirective drugs as a new category of animal drugs. Antibiotic use was once...
for use in the United States. "Avoparcin". Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicine Authority. Archived from the original on 2014-03-10. Retrieved...
(45% from free-range, 5% from barns). The Council of the European Union Directive 1999/74/EC banned conventional battery cages in the EU starting in January...
feeding stalls, and electronic sow feeding equipment, all of which resolve feed competition among pigs. Early veterinary studies seemed to support the use...
and other biocidal products Product-type 3: Veterinary hygiene biocidal products Product-type 4: Food and feed area disinfectants Product-type 5: Drinking...
in feed or drinking water, to treat disease or to prevent disease outbreaks. Some FDA-approved medications are also approved for improved feed utilization...
before it was amplified in the mid-1980s. The description in an 1883 veterinary journal of a case of scrapie in a bovine is an argument used by advocates...
Japan using pet cemetery data". Journal of Veterinary Medical Science. 80 (7). Japanese Society of Veterinary Science: 1153–1158. doi:10.1292/jvms.17-0384...
to intensive animal farming practices such as the concentrated animal feeding operation. In many agriculture-based economies, free-range livestock are...
was a teratogen, the EU began to issue regulations, beginning with a directive prohibiting the use of stilbenes and thyrostatics issued by the European...
cephalopods being used for scientific purposes in the EU are protected by EU Directive 2010/63/EU which states "...there is scientific evidence of their [cephalopods]...
poultry according to two regulations: Directive 1999/74/EC for laying hens allows beak trimming, while Directive 2007/43/EC for broilers permits beak trimming...
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