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Article: Veterinarians sentenced for selling illegal drugs.
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
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Two Wisconsin veterinarians were recently sentenced for illegally manufacturing and distributing unapproved and misbranded animal drugs. The Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing has temporarily suspended their licenses to practice veterinary medicine pending a formal hearing.
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Douglas M. Van Damme, D.V.M., and Clinton D. Anderson, D.V.M., who pleaded guilty last February, were sentenced April 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Both received 15 months in jail and were fined $250,000.
In early 1986, manufacturers of approved animal drugs complained to FDA's Minneapolis district office ...