The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the availability of revised guidance for industry concerning the use of veterinary feed directive drugs. The Guidance for Industry #120 has been revised to provide more detailed information on transmitting electronic veterinary feed directive (VFD) orders via the Internet.
The Guidance for Industry #120 can be found at: http://www.fda.gov/cvm/Guidance/guide120.pdf.
FDA guidance documents, including this guidance, do not establish legally enforceable responsibilities. Instead, guidances describe the Agency’s current thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as recommendations, unless specific regulatory or statutory requirements are cited. The use of the word "should" in Agency guidances mean that something is suggested or recommended, but not required.
Interested persons may submit written comments to the Division of Dockets Management (HFA-305), FDA, 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061, Rockville, MD 20852. Electronic comments may be submitted to http://www.regulations.gov/. All comments should be identified with the docket number, FDA-1999-N-1591 (formerly 99n-1591).
For questions regarding this revised guidance, please contact Dr. Dragan Momcilovic, Division of Animal Feeds, FDA, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Office of Surveillance and Compliance, 7519 Standish Place, HFV-226, Rockville, MD 20855, 240-453-6856, dragan.momcilovic@fda.hhs.gov.
For additional information on veterinary feed directive drugs, please see http://www.fda.gov/cvm/vfd.html.
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FDA