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Article: US FDA prohibits poultry antivirals.( Food and Drug Administration regulates antiviral drugs)
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- Pharma Marketletter
- Article date:
- March 27, 2006
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The US Food and Drug Administration has published a proposed final rule to prohibit the extra-label use in poultry of two classes of approved human antiviral drugs in treating influenza. The FDA said it is taking this measure to help preserve the effectiveness of these drugs for treating or preventing influenza infections in humans.
Specifically, the order prohibits the extra-label use by veterinarians of anti-influenza adamantane (amantadine and rimantadine) and neuraminidase inhibitor (oseltamivir and zanamivir) drugs in chickens, turkeys and ducks. Extra-label use is the actual use or intended use of a drug in an animal in a manner that is not in accordance ...