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Prescription? or VFD? How to know?

  • Terry Ryan Kane, DVM, MS
  • May 31, 2017
  • 1 min read

If your honeybees need medication at all, it's fairly easy to know if your veterinarian can write a prescription or issue a Veterinary Feed Directive. If it is a medication that is put in water, like soluble Tylan, it will require a prescription only. If your bees require a medicated feed, like Terramycin Type A or Oxytetracyline - 50, then you will need a VFD. Here is a link to FARAD, the Food Animal Drug Residue Avoidance & Databank's guide:

 
 
 

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