The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday finalized Guidance for Industry (GFI) #273: Defining Durations of Use for Approved Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs Fed to Food-Producing Animals. The guidance provides recommendations for how animal drug sponsors may voluntarily establish defined durations of use for certain antimicrobial drugs that are important in human medicine (medically important antimicrobial animal drugs) and have one or more indications that currently lack a defined duration of use.
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The USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC) has been awarded nearly $7 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to help expand exports of U.S. poultry and eggs, the agency announced this week. NCC has been a long-standing advocate for full funding for the Market Access Program (MAP) and Foreign Market Development (FMD) program in Congress.
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