AnimalNet Aug. 5/04
Malaysian
farm declared free of bird flu after tests: official
Tuberculosis,
cervids - New Zealand
Group calls
for deer cull
Fish cell
transplants could prevent extinctions
BC-Hog
Methane
program
Lyme disease
still No. 1 vector-borne illness
Feeding
diseased crops as forage to beef cattle
Dakota beef
debuts at Silver Oak Cellars event
APHIS alters
BSE announcement strategy as testing proficiency improvesprotocol change seen by
cattle producers as positive step
NPPC
applauds WTO framework agreement
Prawn
fishers return snakes alive
Cats and 17
other creatures to get genes sequenced
Implantation
or injectable dosage form new animal drugs; Ceftiofur
Ophthalmic
and topical dosage form new animal drugs; Gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment
Implantation
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Malaysian
farm declared free of bird flu after tests: official
August 5, 2004
Agence France Presse
KUALA LUMPUR - Hawari Hussein, director-general of the veterinary services
department, was cited as telling AFP that a duck farm in Malaysia has been
declared free of bird flu following tests after one of its birds imported by
Singapore was found to have a low-risk strain of the virus, adding, "We
carried out tests on ducks in the farm. We could not detect anything."
Tuberculosis,
cervids - New Zealand
August 3, 2004
ProMED-mail post
http://www.promedmail.org>
Source: The New Zealand Herald 4 Aug 2004 [edited]
A Northland farm will slaughter its deer herd and quit deer farming after an
outbreak of bovine tuberculosis (TB).
Lesions were found in 6 deer from Te Rangi Station, in the Far North, where 154
deer were slaughtered in June 2004. The farm is owned by Parengarenga
Incorporation, which also owns 2 other Far North stations.
Chairman Winiata Brown said the incorporation would stop its 10-year deer
farming operation over the next 18 months. "The incorporation does not wish
to jeopardize the TB-free status of Northland farms," he said.
The remaining 966 deer, cleared by tests of the disease, would have to be
slaughtered, Mr Brown said.
The outbreak could have threatened Northland's TB-free status and slashed tens
of millions of dollars from the $1.2 billion [USD 845 million] a year the region
makes from dairy and beef.
[TB can be transmitted in a number of fashions, including close or nose-to-nose
contact. TB is a disease that develops slowly, so it may be difficult to know
when and where these animals were exposed to the disease - Mod.TG]
Group
calls for deer cull
August 5, 2004
The Leader-Post (Regina)
A1 / Front
Dan Kinvig
SASKATOON -- Francois Messier, head of the biology department at the University
of Saskatchewan and chair of a seven-member panel consisting of top scientists
from Canada, the United States, Australia and Belgium, was cited as telling
reporters Wednesday that Canada needs to act immediately to stem the spread of
chronic wasting disease (CWD) among wild deer and elk before it becomes a
national crisis, adding, "If nothing is done and we look 100 years from
now, I would predict that the entire (country of) Canada will have the disease
in the wild deer population."
The story says that in its final report, the panel called on Canada to implement
a federal framework for dealing with CWD, noting that after CWD was first
detected on game farms in 1996, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency spent
millions to kill more than 8,000 animals on 43 farms in Saskatchewan and
Alberta. But there is no similar national policy to combat the disease in the
wild.
Ted Leighton, executive director of the Canadian Co-operative Wildlife Health
Centre (CCWHC), which put together the panel, was quoted as saying, "That
is our major impediment to rational management of this disease. The expectation,
for example, that the taxpayers of Saskatchewan can afford to manage this
disease on behalf of all of Canada is very unrealistic."
Saskatchewan is the only province in which CWD has been detected in the wild.
Since 2000, 34 CWD-infected deer have been found in three distinct areas,
including 29 in the Saskatchewan Landing area north of Swift Current.
The other five were found in areas northeast and south of Lloydminster.
In its recommendations, the panel endorses thinning the deer and elk populations
in the three CWD hot zones to slow the spread of the disease. They recommend a
target density of one cervid per square kilometre, which would represent a
massive cull -- some hot zones have between five and 10 animals per square
kilometre.
Fish
cell transplants could prevent extinctions
August 5, 2004
Reuters
LONDON - Japanese scientists at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and
Technology were cited as reporting in the science journal Nature on Wednesday
they have created trout whose fathers were salmon in an experiment that they say
may help preserve endangered species and boost the world's fish supplies.
The story explains that the researchers described how they transferred
primordial germ cells, which can develop into either sperm or eggs, from newly
hatched rainbow trout embryos to masu salmon embryos, and 30 days after the
transplant the specially marked donated cells were present in the ovaries and
sperm of some of the salmon.
Trout sperm from the salmon was later used to fertilise trout eggs which
produced healthy fish whose DNA fingerprints were similar to the donor trout.
BC-Hog
August 5, 2004
Associated Press
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshiyuki
Kamei was cited as saying Thursday he urged ministry officials to conduct
thorough investigations into hog cholera in Kagoshima Prefecture, after 10 pigs
suspected of being infected with hog cholera have been found on a pig farm in
the town of Takaono in the prefecture and the ministry believes unauthorized
vaccines caused the infection, adding at a press conference that, "Although
the circulation of unauthorized vaccines has not been confirmed, I instructed
officials to conduct thorough investigations."
Methane
program
August 5, 2004
Associated Press
Anne Wallace Allen
MONTPELIER, Vt. -- Central Vermont Public Service Corp., Vermont's largest power
company has, according to this story, won state approval for a plan to have
dairy farmers generate energy from decomposing cow manure to sell back to the
utility, and now hopes to sign up farmers willing to set up a generator on their
property and go into the power business on a small scale.
Spokesman Steve Costello was cited as saying the farmers will be paid market
price plus another 4 cents per kilowatt-hour and that CVPS won't make any extra
money from the project, adding, "Our customers have asked for renewable
power, and this is one more way we can offer it. To help farms become more
financially strong, that's beneficial not only to us but to the state."
Methane gas, created by the decomposition of matter such as trash or cow manure,
can be burned to create energy.
Costello said only one Vermont farm, in Middlebury, generates electricity from
methane. That farm uses the energy itself.
Lyme
disease still No. 1 vector-borne illness
August 9, 2004
American Medical News
Susan J. Landers
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/08/09/hlsc0809.htm
Washington -- Scientists tracking ticks bearing pathogens employ many of the
same techniques used by the crack team of Las Vegas crime scene investigators on
the popular television series "CSI," with one important difference.
"Rather than determining whether a drop of blood found at the scene of the
crime belongs to suspect A, B or C, we are looking to see if the DNA we
extracted from a tick belongs to human pathogen A, B or C," said Richard
Dryden, PhD, professor of biology at Washington and Jefferson College in
Pennsylvania.
The pathogens he pursues are those that cause Lyme disease, babesiosis and human
granulocytic ehrlichiosis, or HGE.
Lyme disease may have been bumped from the headlines by West Nile virus during
the past few years, but it is still the most prevalent vector-borne disease in
the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found there was a 40% increase in
the incidence of Lyme disease, from 17,000 cases in 2001 to 23,763 cases 2002.
Preliminary figures for 2003 -- totals have not yet been tallied -- forecast
rates at a similar level.
Although the disease rarely causes death, the illness, especially if untreated,
can be serious, resulting in facial palsy, meningitis or carditis.
Those bitten by an infected tick may also develop neurologic or joint
abnormalities.
Dr. Dryden is beginning a four-year study funded by the CDC to help pinpoint
areas in the Eastern United States where ticks are most heavily concentrated.
The plan is for localities to take action to get rid of these "hot
spots" and inform residents about their risk of contracting a tick-borne
disease, said Dr. Dryden.
While all states except Hawaii, Montana and Oklahoma have reported cases of
Ninety-five percent of cases were from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island and Wisconsin.
While there are annual variations in the tick population, there has likely been
a real increase in the number of cases, said Paul Mead, MD, a CDC medical
epidemiologist.
Greater awareness of the disease and recognition of its characteristic bull's
eye rash plus increased development of wooded areas inhabited by the deer and
mice that are host to the ticks likely account for the boost in reported cases,
said Michael Zimring, MD, director of the Center for Wilderness and Travel
Medicine at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore.
Covering up is key
Prevention is still the name of the game in efforts to control Lyme disease.
"People have to wear long sleeves, slacks tucked into socks, light-colored
clothes and an application of insect spray containing DEET," said Dr.
Zimring. "And once you get out of the woods, take a shower and do tick
checks with partners. It could be a lot of fun."
If ticks haven't settled in for longer than 24 hours, or some say 36 hours, it
is less likely a person has contracted Lyme disease, said Dr. Zimring.
Lyme disease is most common in Northeast, mid-Atlantic and upper North Central
states.
Dr. Dryden takes pride in the fact that neither he nor any of his
tick-collecting team has contracted a tick-borne illness.
The team dresses entirely in white, looking more like house painters than tick
hunters, to allow easy tick spotting. Every 15 minutes they check each other for
the tiny arthropods.
"In addition, we have duct tape around the cuffs of our long-sleeved shirts
and around our socks into which our pants are tucked," Dr. Dryden reported.
One of the ironies is that there are relatively few ticks in and around
Washington and Jefferson College's south-central Pennsylvania location, so Dr.
Dryden and his team have to travel to reach potential hot spots in their quest
for the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease.
He is also on the lookout for the hemoprotozoan parasites of the genus Babesia
that causes babesiosis. The number of cases of that disease is in the hundreds
rather than the thousands, but the disease can be deadly.
HGE, the third disease on Dr. Dryden's list, is a bacterial disease that was
first described in 1994. Its symptoms are the same as those of babesiosis -- the
seemingly common "flu-like symptoms."
Feeding
diseased crops as forage to beef cattle
August 4, 2004
Yorkton This Week & Enterprise
A8
Significant levels of rainfall and prolonged periods of wet, rainy conditions in
Saskatchewan have caused diseases to develop in crops.
Can these diseased crops be fed safely to beef cattle as forage, silage or
straw?
Some can and some can't, says Bryan Doig, Livestock Agrologist with Saskatchewan
Agriculture, Food and Rural Revitalization.
Serious production problems or even death in livestock can be caused by
harvested grain from certain crops which has become infected with fungi that
produce toxins. These toxins include mycotoxins such as ergot, vomitoxins (DON),
T2 toxins, and Zearalenone among others.
Doig says there is limited research on feeding infected and diseased field crops
in the form of forage, silage or straw to beef cattle.
However, there are some crop diseases present in the field that usually have
little or no measurable amount of toxins or toxic compounds that would cause
animal health problems.
In pulse crops, these diseases are: Ascochyta Blight or Mycosphaerella Blight,
Spot, and Foot Rot; Botrytis Stem and Pod Rot; Anthracnose; Powdery Mildew; Root
Rot; Downy Mildew; Bacterial Blight; Sclerotinia Stem Rot; and Seedling Blight
and Root Rot.
In cereal crops, the diseases which would have little or no measurable amount of
toxins are: Black Point and Smudge; Spot Blotch; Fusarium Head Blight; Stem Rust
and Leaf Rust; Net Blotch; Tan Spot; Leaf, Stem and Glume Blotch; Common Bunt;
Covered Smut; False Loose Smut and Loose Smut.
Where problems can and do occur is after the diseased forage crop is baled and
placed into storage.
"If the moisture content of the bale is high enough to cause subsequent
heating and spoilage, certain mold species can grow and develop and create
dangerous and often deadly mycotoxins," Doig said.
"Mycotoxins can cause a variety of health-related problems in livestock.
Depending on the specific toxin, symptoms can include decreased feed
consumption, reduced rates of gain, weight loss, reproductive problems and
abortion, swollen genitals, hemorrhaging, suppression of the immune system,
decreased lactation and death."
If the diseased forage crop is baled and stored under ideal conditions with no
heating or spoilage occurring, the risk of health related problems due to
mycotoxins tends to be quite low, Doig said.
High numbers of spores can cause respiratory irritations when cattle consume the
forage. Some cattle can develop allergic reactions to the dust and spores.
Palatability can be reduced, affecting feed intakes and lowering rates of gain.
Some species of the fungal organisms can irritate the skin and membranes of the
mouth causing lesions and sores to develop.
Doig said there is little scientific documentation to support the assumption
that crop diseases in field crops used as forage could cause mycotic abortions
in pregnant cows.
Good management and feeding practices could prevent the development of mold and
toxins, Doig said.
He suggests that producers ensure the baled diseased crops are placed into
storage under conditions where no subsequent molding or spoilage will occur. The
forage should be properly dried and baled at 16 per cent moisture content or
less.
If baled crops do contain a large number of spores, Doig recommends that
producers roll the bales out to reduce the amount of spores and dust that cattle
would inhale during feeding.
"Processing the bales does not reduce the level of spores and dust present
in the feed," Doig said.
"And keep a watchful eye on any respiratory problems or mouth lesions that
could develop."
The baled diseased field crops should not be the sole source of forage, Doig
says. Offer cattle other sources of good quality hay to dilute the level of the
off-quality forage. The nutrient content of the baled diseased field crops will
generally be lower than non-diseased crops used for forage. A feed test will
indicate theavailable nutrient content.
"And, as a precaution, feed limited amounts of the diseased field crops
forage to pregnant, lactating or breeding cows," Doig says. "The
diseased field crops are better suited as feed for feeder cattle."
Finally, if the baled diseased field crop has molded and spoiled in storage,
exercise all precautions that apply to feeding mycotoxins to cattle.
For more information about toxins, contact the Agriculture Knowledge Centre
1-866-45-SAFRR or 1-866-457-2377.
Dakota
beef debuts at Silver Oak Cellars event
August 4, 2004
From a press release
OAKVILLE, Calif. -- Guests at the launch of Silver Oak Cellars' 2000 Alexander
Valley Cabernet Sauvignon on July 31st had their first chance to taste Dakota
Beef's Certified Organic Beef. An estimated 4,000 participants enjoyed samples
of grilled steaks, roasts and bratwursts made from 100% Certified Organic Beef.
The incredibly tasty Dakota Organic Beef was also featured in hors d'oeuvre
prepared by Melon's Catering at Silver Oak's Geyserville, California location,
where another 1,500 people attended the semi-annual event.
"I can not think of a better venue to launch our organic beef in Northern
California," said Mr. Scott Lively, president and CEO of Dakota Beef.
"This was our first opportunity to meet the public in Northern California
and we're overwhelmed by their interest in our products and the Certified
Organic Beef program."
"This proves to us that consumers in the Bay Area are going to seek out
restaurants and grocery stores that carry certified organic beef," added
Mr. Bala Kironde, president of Preferred Meats Inc. The Oakland, CA - based
company is the Northern California distributor of Dakota Organic Beef. Preferred
Meats Inc. provides a wide range of high quality meat products to some of the
finest independent butchers, specialty stores and white-tablecloth restaurants
in the state. "We believe Dakota Beef is an excellent addition to our array
of products and look forward to a long and prosperous business relationship with
Mr. Lively's company."
Attendees were also encouraged to register on-line at Dakota Beef's website to
enter a contest for one of five beef packages. Winners will be announced at the
end of August, in order to receive their prizes in time for the Labor Day
weekend.
http://www.dakotabeefcompany.com
APHIS
alters BSE announcement strategy as testing proficiency improvesprotocol change
seen by cattle producers as positive step
August 4, 2004
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association- Press Release
http://www.beef.org/dsp/dsp_content.cfm?locationId=45&contentTypeId=2&contentId=2719
Washington, D.C.– Improvements in BSE testing protocols by the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will
continue the agency’s science-based approach to identifying and announcing
potential BSE cases, according to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA).
APHIS announced today that it will now wait until the second and third
concurrent rapid tests are conducted before declaring a test sample
inconclusive. Only if one of these tests is reactive will APHIS announce the
result as an inconclusive, at which point a confirmatory test will be conducted
at National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa.
This protocol is consistent with manufacturer’s instructions, which state that
a sample is inconclusive for BSE if either of a set of duplicate tests conducted
after the first rapid test is reactive. At that point an immunohistochemistry (IHC)
test – the gold standard test for BSE – is performed.
“We suggested this change to USDA, and support their action,” according to
NCBA President Jan Lyons, a beef producer from Manhattan, Kan. “It conforms to
the manufacturer’s recommendations and is consistent with practices by other
countries, which have identified the best scientific practices to identify the
disease. Their move should help protect our industry by maintaining consumer
confidence and reducing market volatility.”
According to APHIS Chief Veterinarian John Clifford, APHIS has completed
proficiency testing of all BSE labs, including reviewing data from the first 60
days of testing. Its protocol change is based on this review. Rapid tests on
more than 28,000 samples have been conducted since June 1.
NPPC
applauds WTO framework agreement
August 4, 2004
National Pork Producers Council
http://www.nppc.org/news/releases/2004/040804_WTO.html
WASHINGTON, DC - The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) welcomes the World
Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on a framework for the final phase of the
Doha Round of trade negotiations. This important agreement was reached this
weekend in Geneva. According to NPPC President Keith Berry, a pork producer from
Greencastle, Indiana, "the framework agreement represents a significant
step forward in a negotiation that is crucial to the future of American
agriculture. President Bush and his Administration have scored a major victory
for our pork producers."
The Agreement consolidates progress made thus far and points the negotiations in
the direction of a positive substantial outcome in all areas. "It puts
within reach one of the most important U.S. trade policy objectives of the past
30 years, the elimination of export subsidies. Even more important to pork
producers, it mandates substantial improvements in market access for all
products in all countries," Berry said. In the area of domestic support, it
also sets up a negotiation that should lead to a substantial leveling of the
international playing field and a reduction in trade distortions.
"On behalf of America's pork producers, I congratulate USTR Ambassador
Robert Zoellick, Agriculture Ambassador Allan Johnson, and the hard working
staff at USTR and USDA for their good work. NPPC looks forward to working with
the Administration in the coming months to ensure that future negotiations under
this new framework yield the maximum possible benefit for U.S. pork
producers," said Berry.
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is one of the nation's largest
livestock commodity organizations. It has producer members in 44 affiliated
state associations and provides a unified voice for America's pork producers on
a wide range of industry and public policy issues. NPPC's website is at
www.nppc.org.
Prawn
fishers return snakes alive
August 5, 2004
CSIRO Australia Ref PRO4_131
http://www.csiro.au/index.asp?type=mediaRelease&id=Prawnfishers
Fishing crews have gathered information on more than 1000 sea snakes and
hundreds of other species in the first year of a bycatch-monitoring study in the
Northern Prawn Fishery.
They have sampled and recorded details of non-target, or 'bycatch' species as
part of a three-year study that is evaluating both industry-based and
fishery-independent monitoring techniques.
The study is funded by the Australian Government through the Fisheries Research
and Development Corporation and run by CSIRO Marine Research and the Australian
Fisheries Management Authority.
Its findings will help scientists and fishery managers develop a routine bycatch-monitoring
program that will serve the fishery in the long-term.
A second group of volunteer observers is being trained in scientific data
collection at workshop on the Gold Coast this week.
They will embark on the second year of monitoring when they head out from ports
in Cairns, Darwin and Karumba on 1 September for the start of the tiger prawn
season.
"Bycatch monitoring is vital to ensuring the sustainability of all species
affected by the fishery, not just commercial prawn species," David Brewer
of CSIRO says.
"Accurate information is needed to assess the effects of fishing on bycatch
- including any protected or potentially at-risk species - and to respond with
management practices that meet national and international standards. Our task is
to evaluate the most effective way of gathering this information.'
Mr Brewer says the sheer volume of data gathered through industry-based bycatch
monitoring is its greatest advantage.
"The fishery has had 13 boats collecting data every day and sampling every
week for the past two trawling seasons, and a similar number will be involved
again this year," he says.
They have sampled more than 200 cartons of small-bycatch - fish, crustaceans and
sponges - for scientific analysis and collected critical information on
vulnerable species such as turtles, sea snakes, sawfish, sharks and rays.
"While it is too early in the monitoring process to detect any trends, this
volume of data, if collected consistently over time, will provide us with
reliable catch estimates from which to detect changes in bycatch populations.
"Photographic records of sea snake captures in particular have been of an
extremely high quality, enabling us to identify them to species level with 97%
accuracy.
"In addition, improved handling of sea snakes, due to increased awareness
of the issues surrounding their capture, has improved their level of
recovery."
Manager of Perth-based company Newfishing Australia and Northern Prawn
Management Advisory Committee (NORMAC) member, David Carter, says the industry
is keen to play an active role in a long-term bycatch program.
"The commitment of the Northern Prawn Fishery to reducing its impact on
bycatch was a key factor in the fishery's successful environmental audit by the
Federal Government earlier this year," Mr Carter says.
"Involving fishing crews in monitoring is a great way to further their
understanding of the ecosystems that support the prawns, and the need to
maintain them the best possible condition."
Environment member of NORMAC, Eddie Hegerl, agrees.
"The fishery has had a lot of success with the environmental measures it
has introduced in the past few years and it's great to see that commitment
continuing with a new group of volunteer observers," Mr Hegerl says.
"Consistent data across several years will be valuable in showing trends in
bycatch and hopefully the improvements the industry is making with the use of
bycatch reduction devices."
The Northern Prawn Fishery is one of Australia's most valuable fisheries, with
8000 tonnes caught in 2001–2002 worth more than $100 million. The fishery
covers more than one million square kilometres of ocean, from Cape York in
Queensland to Cape Londonderry in Western Australia.
Nine commercial species are caught, including white banana, red-legged banana,
brown tiger, grooved tiger, blue endeavour and red endeavour. Most of the catch
is exported, mainly to Japan.
Cats
and 17 other creatures to get genes sequenced
August 4, 2004
Reuters
WASHINGTON - U.S. government researchers at the National Human Genome Research
Institute were cited as saying on Wednesday that house cats, orangutans,
elephants and slime mold are among 18 new species chosen to have their DNA
sequenced in detail, joining the rat, mouse, dog and chimpanzee in the growing
menagerie of animals having their genomes sequenced.
The story says that comparing human DNA to animal DNA can provide valuable
insights into medicine, which is why popular lab animals such as rats, mice,
cats and dogs are at the front of the line.
Mark Guyer, who directs research programs funded by NHGRI, was quoted as saying,
"With each new genome that we sequence, we move closer to the goal of
finding all of the crucial elements of the human genome involved in development,
health and disease."
Implantation
or injectable dosage form new animal drugs; Ceftiofur
August 5, 2004
Federal Register: (Volume 69, Number 150)
[Page 47362]
[DOCID:fr05au04-8]
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
21 CFR Part 522
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug
regulations to reflect approval of two supplemental new animal drug applications
(NADAs) filed by Pharmacia & Upjohn Co. The supplemental NADAs provide for
establishing a 4-day preslaughter withdrawal period in swine injected with
either a solution made from ceftiofur sodium powder or with a ceftiofur
hydrochloride suspension. DATES: This rule is effective August 5, 2004. FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joan C. Gotthardt, Center for Veterinary Medicine
(HFV-130), Food and Drug Administration, 7500 Standish Pl., Rockville, MD 20855,
301-827-7571, e-mail: joan.gotthardt@fda.gov.
Ophthalmic
and topical dosage form new animal drugs; Gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment
August 5, 2004
Federal Register: (Volume 69, Number 150)
[Page 47363]
[DOCID:fr05au04-10]
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
21 CFR Part 524
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug
regulations to reflect approval of an abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA)
filed by Altana Inc. The ANADA provides for veterinary prescription use of
gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment on dogs and cats for topical treatment of
conjunctivitis caused by susceptible bacteria.
DATES: This rule is effective August 5, 2004. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lonnie W. Luther, Center for Veterinary Medicine (HFV-104), Food and Drug
Administration, 7519 Standish Pl., Rockville, MD 20855, 301-827-8549, e-mail:
lonnie.luther@fda.gov.
Implantation
or injectable dosage form new animal drugs; Romifidine
August 5, 2004
Federal Register: (Volume 69, Number 150)
[Page 47362-47363]
[DOCID:fr05au04-9]
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
21 CFR Part 522
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Final rule.
SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is amending the animal drug
regulations to reflect approval of a new animal drug application (NADA) filed by
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. The NADA provides for the veterinary
prescription use of romifidine hydrochloride injectable solution in horses as a
sedative and analgesic, and as a preanesthetic agent.
DATES: This rule is effective August 5, 2004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melanie R. Berson, Center for Veterinary
Medicine (HFV-110), Food and Drug Administration, 7500 Standish Pl., Rockville,
MD 20855, 301-827-7543, e-mail: mberson@cvm.fda.gov.
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