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September 28, 2016 — [Pharm.]
Animal health expert David Burch dives deep into antimicrobial legislation and summarised it clearly on a global scale. Which developments are going on at different places around the globe? Besides...
September 14, 2016 — [Pharm.]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today it is entering the next phase of its efforts to mitigate antimicrobial resistance by focusing for the first time on medically important...
August 17, 2016 — [Pharm.]
The Scottish pig sector has made online recording of antibiotics compulsory for members of the Quality Meat Scotland assurance scheme. The move follows a trial on five Scottish commercial pig farms....
July 6, 2016 — [Pharm.]
This CVM Update is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s fifth progress report highlighting its recent actions to promote the judicious use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals. [Source:...
June 8, 2016 — [Pharm.]
USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and Office of the Chief Scientist will hold a stakeholder webinar on Antimicrobial Resistance on...
May 10, 2016 — [Pharm.]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized a rule that revises its annual reporting requirements for drug sponsors of all antimicrobials sold or distributed for use in animals intended...
April 13, 2016 — [Pharm.]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has taken the first step toward rescinding its approval of the use of carbadox to treat swine because the drug may leave...
March 16, 2016 — Harry Snelson [Pharm.]
The AASV Pharmaceutical Issues Committee is working with Dr. Chris Rademacher at ISU to collect any questions you may have about changes to the Veterinary Feed Directive. Chris and the committee will...
March 9, 2016 — Harry Snelson [Pharm.]
The AASV Pharmaceutical Issues Committee is working with Dr. Chris Rademacher at ISU to collect any questions you may have about changes to the Veterinary Feed Directive. Chris and the committee will...
March 2, 2016 — Harry Snelson [Pharm.]
The AASV Pharmaceutical Issues Committee is working with Dr. Chris Rademacher at ISU to collect any questions you may have about changes to the Veterinary Feed Directive. Chris and the committee will...
February 4, 2016 — [Pharm.]
The use of antibiotics for production purposes in livestock agriculture is a contested topic, and recent Federal guidelines have been adopted to reduce the practice. Research indicates that...
February 3, 2016 — [Pharm.]
Kavault®, a new swine product from Elanco Animal Health, represents a first-in-class, animal use-only antibiotic for reduction in incidence and overall severity of diarrhea in the presence of...
January 6, 2016 — [Pharm.]
Antimicrobials are important tools for ensuring the health, welfare, and productivity of pigs raised for food. Banning of antimicrobial growth promotant use in Denmark, and subsequently more widely...
December 23, 2015 — [Pharm.]
There is mounting concern that use of antibiotics in livestock will contribute to antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, with repercussions for human and animal health. The USDA Economic Research Service...
December 21, 2015 — [Pharm.]
The Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS), created in 2002, is a national program dedicated to the collection, integration, analysis, and communication of...
December 11, 2015 — [Pharm.]
This summary report presents the sales and distribution data for the 2014 calendar year for antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals. This 2014 summary report also includes...
November 25, 2015 — [Pharm.]
The results presented in this report are based on antimicrobial resistance data from invasive isolates reported to EARS-Net by 29 EU/EEA countries in 2015 (data referring to 2014), and on trend...
October 14, 2015 — Harry Snelson [Pharm.]
Remember that the new Veterinary Feed Directive rule took effect on October 1, 2015. This impacts the three VFD swine products currently on the market (florfenicol, tilmicosin and avilamycin) and any...
October 14, 2015 — Harry Snelson [Pharm.]
California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law the nation’s toughest restrictions yet on antibiotic use in livestock. The law bans the state's livestock producers from using certain antibiotics...
October 14, 2015 — [Pharm.]
Since 1995 the DANMAP programme has monitored the use of antimicrobials in humans and animals in Denmark, and the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria in animals, people and foods. The...
October 7, 2015 — Harry Snelson [Pharm.]
Remember that the new Veterinary Feed Directive rule takes effect on October 1, 2015. This impacts the three VFD swine products currently on the market (florfenicol, tilmicosin and avilamycin) and...
September 30, 2015 — Harry Snelson [Pharm.]
Remember that the new Veterinary Feed Directive rule takes effect on October 1, 2015. This impacts the three VFD swine products currently on the market (florfenicol, tilmicosin and avilamycin) and...
August 25, 2015 — [Pharm.]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced its third progress report highlighting its recent actions to promote the judicious use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals. The agency is...
August 25, 2015 — [Pharm.]
The FDA is considering changing the approval process for drugs used in combination in medicated feeds. Currently, the use of combined drugs in a medicated feed requires an approved new animal drug...
August 19, 2015 — [Pharm.]
This report summarizes the major findings of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) for calendar years 2012 and 2013. The most important resistance findings for Salmonella,...
July 22, 2015 — [Pharm.]
Veterinary Feed Directive Brochures - now available: [Source: FDA Ctr. for Veterinary Medicine] Veterinary Feed Directive Producer Requirements -...
June 10, 2015 — [Pharm.]
The new Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) regulation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) marks a major change for the livestock industry. Veterinarians will soon have increased responsibility...
June 3, 2015 — [Pharm.]
As part of the continued effort to combat antibiotic resistance, the Obama Administration convened a “White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship” on June 2 to bring together key human and animal...
April 29, 2015 — [Pharm.]
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) has created Drug Use Guidelines for Bovine Practice to assist beef and dairy veterinarians in guiding appropriate, effective and legal drugs...
April 29, 2015 — [Pharm.]
On March 27, the White House released the comprehensive National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (Action Plan) that identifies critical actions to be taken by key Federal...
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