The class of drugs restricted to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.
What is a prescription drug or a legend drug?
100
The federal agency responsible for approval and regulation of all drugs for humans and animals in the United States.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
100
The federal law passed initially in 1906 and amended in 1938 responsible for all drug approval and drug regulation in the United States.
What is the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act or FDCA??
100
The listing of all drugs approved for use in animals in the United States.
What is the Green Book or Animal Drugs @ FDA?
100
The relationship that must be present between a veterinarian, the animal owner, and the animal before a veterinarian may prescribe or dispense prescription drugs.
What is the Veterinarian Client Patient Relationship or VCPR?
200
The class of animal drugs available without a prescription that have been deemed safe for layperson use by FDA.
What are Over The Counter or OTC drugs.
200
The federal agency responsible for approval and regulation of all veterinary biologics and vaccines in the United States.
What is the United States Department of Agriculture or USDA?
200
The laws passed in 1968 that restricted veterinarians to using animal drugs only by the conditions in the FDA approved labeling by indication, species, dose, route and duration.
What are the Animal Drug Amendments?
200
The petition that an animal drug company must make to FDA to get approval for a pioneer new animal drug.
What is a New Animal Drug Application or NADA?
200
The legal class of drugs that are not approved by FDA but are used by veterinarians for cosmetic purposes as long as they do not make a medical claim.
What are grooming aids?
300
The class of drugs that are controlled by the Drug Enforcement Agency?
What are controlled substances?
300
The federal agency responsible for approval and regulation of all drugs and chemicals listed in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Pesticide Act.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency or EPA?
300
The law passed in 1994 and enacted in 1996 that allowed veterinarians to use drugs in an extralabel fashion under certain circumstances.
What is the Animal Medicinal Drug Use Clarification Act or AMDUCA?
300
The petition that a generic animal drug company must make to FDA in order to get approval for a generic copy of a pioneer animal drug.
What is an Abbreviated New Animal Drug Application or NADA?
300
The group of drugs that are distributed only to licensed veterinarians under marketing agreements established by veterinary drug manufacturers.
What are Ethical Drugs?
400
The class of therapeutic agents that are approved by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for animals and by FDA for humans.
What are veterinary biologics or vaccines?
400
The federal agency responsible for control and enforcement of all controlled substances in the United States.
What is the Drug Enforcement Agency or DEA?
400
The law passed in 2013 that provided sweeping reform to sterile compounding for humans but is silent on compounding for animals.
What is the Drug Quality and Security Act or DQSA?
400
The petition that an animal drug company must make to FDA in order to get limited approval of a drug that has been proven to be safe and is "likely to be effective".
What is Conditional New Animal Drug Approval or CNADA?
400
The only class of starting ingredients that FDA does not tolerate when compounding preparations for animal patients.
What are active pharmaceutical ingredients or API's or bulk chemicals?
500
The class of drugs that are technically not approved by FDA but have been reviewed by a panel of experts who has deemed them safe and effective.
What are indexed drugs?
500
The state authority responsible for the veterinary practice act and regulation of veterinary medical practice.
What is the state veterinary medical board or VMB?
500
The law passed in 2004 that provided innovative means of drug approval for animal species or diseases that do not pose a viable financial market for pharmaceutical companies.
What is the Minor Use and Minor Species Animal Health Act or MUMS?
500
The list of drugs that are technically unapproved but have been reviewed for safety and efficacy by panels of experts and FDA.
What are Indexed drugs or the Drug Index?
500
The international organization that establishes drug classes and penalties for drugs used in racing animals.
What is the Association of Racing Commissioners International or ARCI?