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Animal
Feed/Drugs
Animal products, including
feeds, pet foods, and drugs are generally subject to the same
mandatory requirement of the Federal, Food, Drug and Cosmetic
Act as like products for use in humans. The legal
definition of a “drug” itself includes articles intended
“for man or other animals”. Although the law provides
separate definitions of a new drug requiring affirmative FDA
approval for human drugs and animal drug respectively, these
definitions are virtually identical in substance. The “new
animal drug” definition explicitly includes drugs intended for
use in animal feed.
Like new drug intended for human
use, a new animal drug must be investigated in preclinical and
then clinical studies in order to gather evidence about its
safety and efficacy. One procedural difference between human and
animal drug approvals is that all new animal drug approvals are
published as regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Beneath the overall structured similarities between the approval
processes for human and animal drugs, there is an important
difference in policy and approach, particularly with respect to
drugs for use in food-producing animals. One such difference
stems from that the fact that such drugs are often administered
in animal feed. In such cases FDA regulates not only the drug
itself, but also the premixes and concentrates into which the
drug is initially mixed as well as the final medicated feed
incorporating such concentrates to be fed to animals. CCS offers
a range of veterinary consulting and auditing services
including:
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