{"id":6911,"date":"2016-02-26T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T21:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:24:07","slug":"make-plans-for-veterinary-feed-directive-changes-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/make-plans-for-veterinary-feed-directive-changes-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Make plans for veterinary feed directive changes now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the new veterinary feed directive, or VFD, drug ruling by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration went into effect Oct. 1, 2015, livestock producers can expect to see new labels for medically important antibiotics used on the feed of food animals by Jan. 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Apley, professor of production medicine and clinical pharmacology at Kansas State University\u2019s College of Veterinary Medicine, said that while the new labels may be about a year away, he encourages livestock producers to use 2016 to start planning ahead with their veterinarians, and to build the necessary veterinary-client-patient relationship, if not already in place, that this ruling requires.<\/p>\n<p>To continue to read this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cattlenetwork.com\/news\/industry\/prepare-your-operation-new-vfd-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new ruling will demand some veterinarian and client interactions that weren\u2019t required before regarding the use of medically important antibiotics in feed and water, said Apley, a veterinarian who specializes in beef production medicine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,27,14,31,20],"tags":[163,164,166,162,161,165],"class_list":["post-6911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching","tag-kansas-state-university","tag-ksu","tag-livestock","tag-usda","tag-veterinary-feed-directive","tag-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911","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=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}