{"id":2782,"date":"2009-11-25T02:25:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2009-11-25T02:25:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:25:29","slug":"phenylbutazone-use-topic-of-fda-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/phenylbutazone-use-topic-of-fda-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Phenylbutazone use topic of FDA letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-align: left;\">Federal authorities have issued an online statement regarding legal and illegal uses of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug commonly administered to horses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-align: left;\">The Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s Center for Veterinary Medicine posted an open letter Oct. 14 to veterinarians on the use and compounding of phenylbutazone in horses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-align: left;\">A complete list of the 48 FDA-approved phenylbutazone, or &#8220;bute,&#8221; products is included, as are reminders of situations under which veterinarians may legally compound the drug. Specific instances are given, such as when a patient requires the drug in a strength or dosage form that is not available among the approved products. In this case, the letter advises using an FDA-approved phenylbutazone product as the starting material and reminds veterinarians that it is illegal to compound the drug from bulk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/dec09\/091201c.asp\" target=\"_self\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities have issued an online statement regarding legal and illegal uses of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug commonly administered to horses. The Food and Drug Administration&#8217;s Center for Veterinary Medicine posted an open letter Oct. 14 to veterinarians on the use and compounding of phenylbutazone in horses. A complete list of the 48 FDA-approved phenylbutazone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2783,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}