Complete Up To Date Information about Fermycin Soluble.
NADA Number: 065-178 | |
| Proprietary Name |
Fermycin Soluble |
|---|---|
| Sponsor |
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. |
| Sponsor Address |
2621 North Belt Highway St.Joseph, MO 64502 USA |
| Ingredients |
Chlortetracycline Hydrochloride |
| Species |
Cattle, dairy, not lactating Cattle, beef Turkey, growing Cattle, calves, excluding veal calves Chicken, not laying eggs for human consumption Swine, no use class stated or implied |
| Routes of Administration |
Per Os |
| Dose Form |
Liquid (solution) |
| Drug Form |
Liquid (solution) |
| Dispensing Status |
OTC |
| Withdrawal Time |
Cattle (non lactating): 24 hours before slaughter. A withdrawal time for pre-ruminating veal calves has not been established.
Chicken and Turkey: 24 hours before slaughter.
Swine: 5 days before slaughter. |
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Dosage Amount, Indications & Limitations |
520.445b Chlortetracycline powder (chlortetracycline hydrochloride or chlortetracycline bisulfate). Specifications: Chlortetracycline powder contains not less than 15 milligrams per gram chlortetracycline hydrochloride, or chlortetracycline bisulfate equivalent to 25.6, 64 or 102.4 grams per pound (56.4, 141 or 225.6 milligrams per gram) chlortetracycline hydrochloride. Conditions of use: Chickens Amount: 200 to 400 milligrams per gallon of drinking water. Indications: Control of infectious synovitis caused by Mycoplasma synoviae. Limitations: Prepare fresh solution daily. As sole source of chlortetracycline. Do not use for more than 14 days. Do not slaughter animals for food within 24 hours of treatment. Do not use in laying chickens. Amount: 400 to 800 milligrams per gallon of drinking water. Indications: Control of chronic respiratory disease and air-sac infections caused by M. gallisepticum and E. coli. Limitations: Prepare fresh solution daily. As sole source of chlortetracycline. Do not use for more than 14 days. Do not slaughter animals for food within 24 hours of treatment. Do not use in laying chickens. Turkeys (growing) Amount: 400 milligrams per gallon of drinking water. Indications: Control of infectious synovitis caused by M. synoviae. Limitations: Prepare fresh solution daily. As sole source of chlortetracycline. Do not use for more than 14 days. Do not slaughter animals for food within 24 hours of treatment. Amount: 25 milligrams per pound of body weight daily in drinking water. Indications: Control of complicating bacterial organisms associated with bluecomb (transmissible enteritis, coronaviral enteritis). Limitations: Prepare fresh solution daily. As sole source of chlortetracycline. Do not use for more than 14 days. Do not slaughter animals for food within 24 hours of treatment. Swine Amount: 10 milligrams per pound body weight daily in divided doses in drinking water. Indications: Control and treatment of bacterial enteritis (scours) caused by E. coli and Salmonella species and bacterial pneumonia associated with Pasteurella species, Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (Haemophilus species), and Klebsiella species Limitations: Prepare a fresh solution daily as sole source of chlortetracycline: do not use for more than 5 days. Do not slaughter animals for food within 5 days after treatment. Cattle (calves, beef, and nonlactating dairy) Amount: 10 milligrams per pound daily in divided doses as a drench. Indications: Control and treatment of bacterial enteritis (scours) caused by E. coli and Salmonella species and bacterial pneumonia (shipping fever complex) associated with Pasteurella species A. pleuropneumoniae (Haemophilus species), and Klebsiella species Limitations: Prepare fresh solution daily. Use as a drench. As sole source of chlortetracycline. Do not use for more than 5 days. Do not slaughter animals for food within 24 hours of treatment. Do not use in lactating cattle. Do not administer this produce with milk or milk replacers. Administer 1 hour before or 2 hours after feeding milk or milk replacers. A withdrawal period has not been established in preruminating calves. Do not use in calves to be processed for veal. |
| Tolerances |
Tolerances are established for the sum of tetracycline residues in tissues of beef cattle, nonlactating dairy cows, calves, swine, sheep, chickens, turkeys, and duck or 2 parts per million in muscle, 6 parts per million in liver, and 12 parts per million in fat and kidney. A tolerance is established for residues of chlortetracycline in eggs of 0.4 part per million. |