Drugs and Your Horse: The Dangers of Medicating
Edited Press Release
January 29, 2015
Improper use of some common equine drugs can impact our horses’ health and safety more than some might think.
Improper use of some common equine drugs can impact our horses’ health and safety more than some might think.
Officials also said they’d completed their investigation into horse mistreatment allegations surrounding Steve Asmussen.
Cox Veterinary Laboratory has recalled and ceased production of Gastroade Xtra because it is not FDA-approved.
Discussion topics will include expanded lab capabilities, emerging integrity threats, combating doping, and more.
Is long-term use of Previcox for treating pain related to navicular syndrome in horses okay?
Of the 879 samples tested through Nov. 15, nine (1%) came back over the 25 parts-per-billion threshold level.
Mary Scollay-Ward, DVM; Rick Arthur, DVM; and Lynn Hovda, MS, DVM, signed the letter of support.
Pretreating an area with microneedles resulted in a 170% increase in the amount of lidocaine that permeated the skin.
The group wants to ensure agencies can sanction licensees who violate restrictions on illegally compounded drugs.
Regulators have preliminarily adopted a new system of minimum penalties for multiple equine drug violations.
Tildren is approved to control clinical signs associated with navicular syndrome in horses.
Drs. Rick Sams, Scott Stanley, Mary Robinson, Ken McKeever, and George Maylin have been appointed to the board.
The policy change date was adjusted to allow more time to clarify certain elements of the new rules.
The sales company is offering the testing based on new rules banning anabolic steroid use in racehorses.
The adoption of new model rules on medication use in racehorses has led to an increase in positive tests in Indiana.
The RCI has asked the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) to merge into a new RCI scientific advisory board.
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