Food Animal Drug Regulations

Navigating FARAD

Open up a browser window and go to FARAD.org. Scan through the four orange boxes below the image to explore the site.

farad opening page

There are more links below those too – this seems to be the new version of the boxes.

lower box on farad.org

Use the following exercises to help you get more comfortable with the site.

As you work through these, also try to differentiate between

  • FDA approved drugs
  • non-FDA approved drugs with recommended withholding times
  • drugs that can be used under AMDUCA guidelines, with or without recommended withholding times
  • drugs that cannot be used in food animals or certain food animal groups regardless

FARAD tour (the links and how to use them are similar, just not the front page)

Guide to FARAD Resources, JAVMA 2017

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Large Animal Surgery - Supplemental Notes by Erin Malone, DVM, PhD; Elaine Norton, DVM PhD; Erica Dobbs, DVM; and Ashley Ezzo, DVM is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.