Monday, November 29, 2010

Protect Your Pet’s Medications and Help Save Your Best Friends Life

Do you share your home with a pet? Whether feathered or furry, you know they’re an important part of your family and depend on you for love and care.

Part of that care is making sure your pet has access to the medicines and healthcare that’s right for them whenever illness strikes. The International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) wants you to know that there’s something you can do – TODAY – to help guarantee that.

Over the past several months, IACP has worked with Congress to correct a discrepancy in the Food and Drug Administration’s policies on prescriptions for pets. The FDA has declared that preparing compounded medicines from pure pharmaceutical ingredients is inappropriate and even illegal. Why they have that policy is unclear, especially since the Agency recognizes the... (more)

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