Source: Maureen Hanson, AGWEB, 4/5/22


Access to antibiotics continues to change for U.S. livestock producers. Soon, antibiotics likely will not be available over-the-counter (OTC) through traditional retail channels at all. When the Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) took effect in 2017, the use of “medically important” antibiotics – those products that were used in both human and animal medicine – was placed under greater veterinary oversight.

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