"Dear Doctor" Letters

Letters issued to veterinary medicine professionals by drug manufacturers alerting the professionals to important safety information.

• ProHeart®6, Fort Dodge Animal Health (PDF - 99KB) 
  June 5, 2008
• Important Drug Information about ProHeart® 6 
  Fort Dodge Animal Health, September 13, 2004
• Deramaxx (PDF - 141KB) 
  Novartis Animal Health US, December 22, 2003
• ProHeart®6 (PDF - 97KB) 
  Fort Dodge Animal Health, June 19, 2003
• ProHeart®6 (PDF - 15KB) 
  Fort Dodge Animal Health, July 22, 2002
• Baytril® (PDF - 357KB) 
  Bayer Corporation, July 6, 2000
• EtoGesic® (PDF - 9KB) 
  Tablets, Fort Dodge Animal Health, May 23, 2000
• RIMADYL® (PDF - 16KB) 
  Pfizer, Inc., March 9, 2000

Additional Information

• FDA Announces Limited Return of Heartworm Drug to U.S. Market 
  Updated information on the status of ProHeart 6.
• Enforcement Reports 
• Recalls & Withdrawals 
  Recalls are actions taken by a firm to remove a product from the market. Recalls may be conducted on a firm's own initiative, by FDA request, or by FDA order under statutory authority.
• MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program 
  Find clinically important safety information and report serious problems with human medical products.
• Recalls.gov 
  To provide better service in alerting the American people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products, six federal agencies with vastly different jurisdictions have joined together to create www.recalls.gov -- a "one stop shop" for U.S. Government recalls.
• Counterfeit Pesticide Products for Dogs and Cats 
  EPA, in cooperation with its state and regional regulatory partners, is announcing the issuance of stop sale, use, and removal orders to retailers and other distributors of certain counterfeit pesticide products for control of fleas and ticks on dogs...