{"id":362,"date":"2016-02-06T21:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/?p=362"},"modified":"2016-02-06T21:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T21:18:57","slug":"more-federal-farming-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/2016\/02\/more-federal-farming-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"More Federal Farming Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is one you may not have heard about…most people haven’t heard about it yet.\u00a0 The Veterinary Feed Directive goes into effect Jan1, 2017.\u00a0 What is the Veterinary Feed Directive?\u00a0 You will wish you hadn’t asked…<\/p>\n

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration implemented the Veterinary Feed Directive, or VFD, which will require farmers to get prescriptions on most antibiotics they would normally get over the counter for their livestock feed.\u00a0 The regulation covers antimicrobial drugs administered via feed or water, but not via injection. It also will hit every retailer that sells these products and every veterinarian.<\/p>\n

Here is the problem.\u00a0 Filling a prescription is not a same-day process.\u00a0 Farmers and ranchers won\u2019t be able to call distributors with last-minute requests under the new regulation.\u00a0 Also Veterinarians will be held liable for abuses of directive prescriptions.<\/p>\n

Here are all the details available via the FDA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year feed manufacturers, regardless of size or capacity had to meet human food standards for production.\u00a0 That was a huge expense for all of them.\u00a0 Now this, Farming has always been difficult, seems they want to make it more difficult.<\/p>\n

Here is a SlideShare that covers it:
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Here is one you may not have heard about…most people haven’t heard about it yet.\u00a0 The Veterinary Feed Directive goes into effect Jan1, 2017.\u00a0 What is the Veterinary Feed Directive?\u00a0 You will wish you hadn’t asked… Last year, the Food and Drug Administration implemented the Veterinary Feed Directive, or VFD, which will require farmers to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,48,3],"tags":[100,101,64,105],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-news","category-farm-products","category-farming","tag-farm-news","tag-farming","tag-safety","tag-veterinarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnrfarms.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}