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Prescribing of drugs for food‐producing animals in Norway. Information about withdrawal times
Author(s) -
BANGEN M.,
SKJERVE E.,
GRAVE K.,
SØLI N. E.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1365-2885
pISSN - 0140-7783
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2885.1992.tb01005.x
Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , veterinary drugs , drug withdrawal , human health , drug , health hazard , veterinary drug , pharmacology , veterinary medicine , environmental health , chemistry , chromatography
The prescribing of drugs for food‐producing animals in Norway was investigated with special emphasis on written information given about withdrawal times. The study was designed as a cross‐sectional prescription survey. Of 1518 prescriptions for food‐producing animals, it was concluded that 1224 of the prescriptions were for drugs requiring withdrawal times for meat, milk or eggs. Of these 1224 prescriptions, 82.8% were for veterinary preparations, 6.6% were for human preparations and 10.6% were for other drugs. For 20.8% of the prescriptions, information about withdrawal time(s) was missing. For prescriptions for veterinary preparations this figure was 5.9%, and for prescriptions for human preparations and other drugs 95.1% and 90.8%, respectively. For veterinary preparations approved for the intended species, as many as 99.2% gave information about withdrawal times on the drug container label. Lack of information about withdrawal times might give rise to drug residues in food for human consumption and thus pose a potential hazard to human health.