Expert Presenters Invited for Aquaculture America 2021

Drug Updates/Indexing Special Session:

Similar to years past, AADAP is planning to co-host a special session with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Drug Approval Working Group, (DAWG) at Aquaculture America 2021 to be held in San Antonio, TX from August 11-14th, 2021. In addition to presentations on aquaculture drug approval progress updates and associated research, we’re also welcoming presentations surrounding the topic of drug indexing. As an alternative to the drug approval process for non-food producing minor species and non-food early life stages of food-producing minor species, indexing provides a faster and less expensive process to obtain legal marketing status for eligible products.

For more information on Drug Indexing, please see the FDA’s Drug Indexing webpage and the Summary of Findings of the National Aquaculture Association’s Survey of Broodstock in Aquaculture & Drug Indexing.

If you’re interested in giving a presentation on aquaculture drug approval progress, updates or indexing, please contact Julie Schroeter for more information by June 23rd, 2021.

Model Fish Special Session:

In addition to the Drug Updates/Indexing special session, AADAP is also cohosting a special session with the Aquatic Drug Approval Coalition (ADAC), a coalition of public and private agencies and aquaculturists whose goal is to reduce time, cost, and complexity of gaining new aquatic animal drug approvals from the Food and Drug Administration-Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA-CVM).

Recently, ADAC has begun a dialogue with FDA-CVM with the idea that a model/representative fish for warmwater (e.g., channel catfish) or coldwater (e.g., rainbow trout) should suffice for testing Human Food Safety requirements. Adopting a model fish approach would greatly reduce the number of species/tests required by the agency, and in turn, reduce the time, cost, and complexity of getting an aquatic animal drug approved. We are organizing a special session during Aquaculture America 2021 to resolve whether a model fish approach can work, and to determine potential fish species that could serve in this role.

If your research or experience can contribute to this fish physiology-based session, please contact the NAA Office at naa@thenaa.net or call 850-216-2400 by June 23rd, 2021.