{"id":7045,"date":"2016-05-04T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7045"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:46:44","slug":"therapeutic-vet-diet-compliance-policy-guide-finalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/therapeutic-vet-diet-compliance-policy-guide-finalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapeutic Vet Diet Compliance Policy Guide Finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\">As a general matter, companies may not make therapeutic or \u201cdrug\u201d claims in connection with the marketing of food or feed, including pet food.\u00a0 However, in reality, therapeutic pet food products have been marketed for years\u00a0without official drug approvals in\u00a0accordance with FDA\u2019s longstanding enforcement discretion policy in this space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/AnimalVeterinary\/NewsEvents\/CVMUpdates\/ucm318706.htm\">2012<\/a>, FDA\u00a0issued a draft\u00a0<em>Compliance Policy Guide (CPG)\u00a0<\/em>explaining the criteria that the Agency would consider when determining whether to take enforcement action regarding dog and cat food diets intended to treat specific diseases.\u00a0 FDA generally has exercised enforcement discretion with respect to \u201cdrug requirements\u201d for therapeutic pet food products where:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">(1) the product provided all or most nutrients in support of an animal\u2019s total required daily nutrient needs;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">(2) labels and marketing materials made available to the general public did not contain claims to treat or prevent disease; and<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">(3) the products were distributed only through licensed veterinarians.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/pets-and-vets-therapeutic-vet-diet-compliance-policy-guide-finalized\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reality, therapeutic pet food products have been marketed for years\u00a0without official drug approvals in\u00a0accordance with FDA\u2019s longstanding enforcement discretion policy in this space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,31,20],"tags":[418,151,419],"class_list":["post-7045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching","tag-diet-compliance","tag-fda","tag-prevent-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045","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=7045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8190,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7045\/revisions\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}