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March 26, 2009

FDA Revises Guidance Related to Veterinary Feed Directive

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today 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
 
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.


Issued by:
FDA, Center for Veterinary Medicine,
Communications Staff, HFV-12
7519 Standish Place, Rockville, MD 20855
Telephone: (240) 276-9300 FAX: (240) 276-9115
Internet Web Site: http://www.fda.gov/cvm

Web page updated by hd - March 26, 2009, 4:20 PM ET
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