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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association- Compounding Drugs and Extra-Label Drug Use? Watch Your Step! Charlotte Lacroix, DVM, JD-February 8, 2014

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Charlotte LacroixCharlotte Lacroix, DVM, JD

Compounding Drugs and Extra-Label Drug Use? Watch Your Step!
The contemporary practice of veterinary medicine presents unique difficulties concerning legal and ethical drug use in our patients. Compared to the introduction of human drugs, few new animal drugs come to market, and this has left veterinarians heavily dependent upon the use of human drugs for animals. The relatively short supply of approved animal drugs in convenient formulations has led to the widespread practice of drug “compounding." What is compounding? When is it the standard of practice? The ins and outs and appropriate use of FDA approved and compounded formulations will be discussed.

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