Has it ever happened to you how competitive pricing, counterfeit drugs, untrustworthy sources for drugs and the honesty that our profession must maintain present an everyday dilemma? How can veterinarians avoid being affected by gossips of adulterated and contaminated food and drugs and still maintain the public’s trust?

Dawn Merton Boothe, DVM, Ph.D., Dipl. ACVIM and ACVCP, director of pharmacology at Auburn University, asked veterinarians to contest the adulteration of products in her letter to the editor in the Dec. 1 Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Assn.
Compounded drugs aren’t approved by the Food and Drug Administration. When approved drugs are not available, or are not suitable because of the way they are packaged by the manufacturer for a doctor’s intended use in a particular patient, compounding of that drug is allowed. Though the compounding industry is growing fast, it is not well regulated yet. (more…)