{"id":4510,"date":"2011-02-16T00:42:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2011-02-16T02:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:05:20","slug":"fda-proposal-to-change-policy-on-pet-medication-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/fda-proposal-to-change-policy-on-pet-medication-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacists say proposed FDA rules are not in animals best interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">BILLINGS &#8211; When Fluffy, your feline who just shredded a new curtain gets her next dose of Fluoxetine or kitty Prozac, you may have to give her a pill, rather than rubbing a gel in her ear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That will be the outcome if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration formalizes a policy prohibiting pharmacists from mixing or compounding pet medications from pure chemicals. Instead, they would have to buy commercially available drugs and grind up the pills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;In the eyes of the FDA, the only thing you can use on Fluffy is the capsule manufactured and sold at a drug store. The FDA said it is an unapproved drug if you&#8217;re turning that capsule into a gel to rub inside Fluffy&#8217;s ear,&#8221; said David Miller, a pharmacist and chief executive of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists. He&#8217;s also a pet owner who works in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This issue is a top concern for Miller and IACP&#8217;s 2,000 members. And time is short.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The FDA is soliciting suggestions about the standards, but comments must be received by Friday. That&#8217;s a 45-day comment period, instead of the normal 90 days, and the issue is just gaining attention. <a href=\"http:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/article_17e5afde-36de-11e0-af10-001cc4c002e0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILLINGS &#8211; When Fluffy, your feline who just shredded a new curtain gets her next dose of Fluoxetine or kitty Prozac, you may have to give her a pill, rather than rubbing a gel in her ear. That will be the outcome if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration formalizes a policy prohibiting pharmacists from [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}