Medications
This part of the label tells you how much medicine to give your animals at one time.
What is dosage?
Your animal(s) need these 3 things to survive.
What is Food, Water, and Shelter?
This is the most important nutrient to your animal.
What is Water?
This person is responsible when processors find drug residue in your animal
What is You?
This relationship must be established for proper veterinary care.
Veterinarian/Client/Patient Relationship (VCPR)
Destroy after May 14, 2026 is this part of a medication label (think about when you get a jug of milk).
What is expiration date?
You should check your animal this often for any changes in behavior, signs of injury or illness?
What is daily?
The 6 nutrients that your animal requires.
What is Water, Carbohydrates, Fats, Proteins, Minerals, and Vitamins?
This is the proper way to handle your animals.
What is calmly and gently?
Keeping this type of record helps ensure food safety and animal health.
Medication and treatment records
The main chemical or "ingredient" in the product is called this on the medication label.
These are some indicators of stress or illness.
What is lack of appetite, abnormal posture, slower growth, rapid breathing, lameness, restlessness, dull attitude, unusual noises, self-isolation, diarrhea, nasal discharge, temperature?
This is how much of your animal's body weight they should be consuming each day?
What is 2-3% of their body weight?
How many times a day should you check your animal's water buckets?
Daily observation helps assess the effectiveness of these programs
Health and nutrition programs
This part of the medication label tells you how to administer the product and can be by mouth, by injection, etc.
What is Directions for Use or Application Method?
An important part of raising livestock, this management practice consists of using a medication to get rid of internal parasites in your animal.
What is De-worming?
What things should you pay attention to when evaluating feed?
This type of injection is given in the neck of a production animal.
What is INTRA-Muscular (IM)?
FDA expects producers to maintain these records for each animal.
The amount of time it takes an animal's body to metabolize medication to a level that is safe for human consumption
What is withdrawal period?
Animals must have enough space to do these activities comfortably.
What is stand, lie down, eat, drink, defecate, and urinate?
Legumes, grasses, sileages, and pasture are considered this type of feed.
What is roughages?
What is the promise to consumers that our product is safe and of highest quality?
This inject method for administering medication causes the least amount of damage to the muscle tissue (hint think about the routes of administration)
What is Subcutaneous or under the skin?