Animal Pharmacy

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DEFEND THE RIGHT TO COMPOUND VETERINARY MEDICATIONS!

The United States Food and Drug administration (FDA) center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) recently issued a Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) for animals that disallows all compounding from bulk pharmaceutical ingredients! This standard is much more restrictive than the FDA's policies governing compounding for human patients.

The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) needs your help to ensure that this extremely restrictive guideline is withdrawn. We need YOU to ask the FDA to withdraw the Vet Compliance Policy Guide and reissue it in draft form.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Simply write a letter (template below) and fax it to:

Stephen Sundlof
Director of Center for Veterinary Medicine, US FDA
301-827-4401

If you want to help even more fax it also to:
*   FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan at 301-443-3100
*   Your Senators and Representative (go to www.congress.org, enter
     your zip code to find the names and fax numbers pf your elected officals)
*   IACP

Also...
*   Urge your vet to become educated and involved.
*   Educate your friends and other pet owners.

Use the template below or download the letter here.

print/download the letter here

___________
(date)

Stephen F. Sundlof, Director
Center for Veterinary Medicine
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (HFV-1)
7500 Standish Place
Rockville, MD 20855

Dear Dr. Sundlof:

My pet ____________________, a ____________________,
            (pet's name)                           (type of animal)

receives ____________________ medication from a
               (name of medication)

compounding pharmacy to treat ____________________.
                                                     (animal's condition)

My pharmacist must use bulk drug substances to compound this medication for my pet. Without this medication, _____________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
(describe how your pet would suffer or how your life would be more difficult without the medication)

Please ensure that FDA's guidance and regulations for veterinary compounding do not prevent my pharmacist from being able to customize medication for my pet. I am urging you to withdraw the current compliance policy guide for veterinary compounding.

Sincerely,

________________________________________
(name)

________________________________________
(city)

________________________________________
(state)