Michigan's Animal Owners Need Veterinarians Who Will Provide Veterinary Feed Directive Orders

AID will create a directory of veterinarians writing VFD orders for producers.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is in the process of making changes to antibiotic availability and how antibiotics can be used in livestock. Historically, a majority of feed-grade antibiotics used in or on animal feeds have been available to producers over the counter. However, the FDA's changes are moving all human medically important feed-grade antibiotics to the veterinary feed directive drug process by January 1, 2017. 

Producers will be seeking veterinarians who are willing to write VFD orders. As a part of that process, much like prescription use, these producers will need to establish a veterinary client-patient relationship with a veterinarian prior to the VFD order being written. Veterinarians who may not normally handle livestock, small or large, regularly may be asked whether they are willing to write a VFD order.

In an effort to provide producers with the best information, we are collecting the names of veterinarians who are willing to write VFD orders.

Take our short survey to put your name on the list of Michigan veterinarians providing VFD orders to clients:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/vfdvets

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Contact the Animal Industry Division:

Constitution Hall
525 West Allegan Street
6th Floor, P.O. Box 30017
Lansing, MI 48909

800-292-3939

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For questions or suggestions, contact Megan Sprague  at 517-284-5661 or e-mail SpragueM@michigan.gov