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Animal Drugs

Animal Food (including Pet Food)

Animal Medical Devices

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For Industry

For Consumers

For Veterinarians

Safety & Health

Product Safety Information including Recalls, Adverse Drug Events, Antimicrobial Resistance, Animal Cloning and Animal Drug Shortage information

Products

Animal Drugs, Animal Food (including Pet Food and the GRAS program), Animal Medical Devices, Imports & Exports

News & Events

Press releases, Outbreaks and Advisories, and meeting announcements

Resources for You

Information for consumers, veterinarians, industry, and publicaciones en español

Compliance & Enforcement

CVM Compliance Programs, Drug Residues, BSE and Unapproved Animal Drugs

Guidance & Regulations

Guidance for Industry, Policies & Procedures Manual, Laws

Development & Approval Process

New Animal Drug Applications, Electronic Submissions, User Fees, Biotechnology, Minor Use/Minor Species, Aquaculture, Food Additive Petitions

Science & Research

Research areas, National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network (Vet-LIRN)

Reporting Problems with Animal Products

FDA encourages consumers, veterinarians and industry to report problems with animal drugs, food and devices.

How to Report Problems

Center

Oct 11

Tuffy’s Pet Foods; Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall of a Limited Quantity of Pure Vita Salmon Entrée Dog Food in a Tetrapak Carton Due to Potentially Elevated Levels of Vitamin D

Oct 01

Fromm Family Foods Voluntarily Recalls Four Star Shredded Entrée Canned Food for Dogs Due to Elevated Levels of Vitamin D

Aug 26

Top Quality Dog Food Recalls Batch Of “Beef HVM” 1-Pound Packages with Lot Number 071521, Because of Possible Salmonella, Listeria Monocytogenes Health Risk

Oct 20

FDA Announces Webinar on the Development of Animal Cells, Tissues, and Cell- and Tissue-based Products

Oct 05

FDA Issues Draft Guidances to Help Facilitate the Development of New Animal Drug Submissions

Sep 27

FDA and United Kingdom Announce Mutual Recognition Agreement for Pharmaceutical Good Manufacturing Practice Inspections of Animal Drugs

More CVM Updates

Certain Sportmix Pet Food Recalled for Potentially Fatal Aflatoxin

FDA Alert: Certain Lots of Pet Food from Multiple Brands Recalled for Aflatoxin

FDA Cautions Pet Owners Not to Feed One Lot Aunt Jeni's Pet Food

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Oct 06

CVM GFI #268 Adaptive and Other Innovative Designs for Effectiveness Studies of New Animal Drugs

Oct 06

CVM GFI #266 Use of Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence to Support Effectiveness of New Animal Drugs

Oct 06

CVM GFI #265 Use of Data from Foreign Investigational Studies to Support Effectiveness of New Animal Drugs

FDA Guidance Search

CVM is an internationally recognized, high performance, public health organization committed to our mission of protecting human and animal health. CVM is responsible for assuring that animal drugs and medicated feeds are safe and effective and that food from treated animals is safe to eat. We are comprised of six offices and are located in both Rockville, Maryland and Laurel, Maryland.

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