Medamycin Soluble Antibiotic

520.1660d Oxytetracycline hydrochloride sterile powder.

Specifications: Each 4.2 gram of powder contains 1 gram of oxytetracycline hydrochloride (packets: 3.8, 15.2 ounce 4.74 and 23.7 pound).

Conditions of use:

Chickens

Amount: 200 to 400 milligrams per gallon of drinking water.

Indications: Control of infectious synovitis caused by Mycoplasma synoviae susceptible to oxytetracycline.

Limitations: Prepare a fresh solution daily. Administer 7 to 14 days. Not to be used for more than 14 consecutive days. Use as sole source of drinking water. Do not use in birds producing eggs for human consumption.

Amount: 400 to 800 milligrams per gallon of drinking water.

Indications: Control of chronic respiratory disease (CRD) and air sac infections caused by Mycoplasma gallisepticum and E. coli susceptible to oxytetracycline; control of fowl cholera caused by Pasteurella multocida susceptible to oxytetracycline.

Limitations: Prepare a fresh solution daily. Administer 7 to 14 days. Not to be used for more than 14 consecutive days. Use as sole source of drinking water. Do not use in birds producing eggs for human consumption.

Turkeys

Amount: 200 to 400 milligrams per gallon of drinking water.

Indications: Control of hexamitiasis caused by Hexamita meleagridis susceptible to oxytetracycline.

Limitations: Prepare a fresh solution daily. Administer 7 to 14 days. Not to be used for more than 14 consecutive days. Use as sole source of drinking water. Do not use in birds producing eggs for human consumption.

Amount: 400 milligrams per gallon of drinking water.

Indications: Control of infectious synovitis caused by Mycoplasma synoviae susceptible to oxytetracycline.

Limitations: Prepare a fresh solution daily. Administer 7 to 14 days. Not to be used for more than 14 consecutive days. Use as sole source of drinking water. Do not use in birds producing eggs for human consumption.

Turkeys (growing)

Amount: 25 milligrams per pound of body weight in drinking water.

Indications: Control of complicating bacterial organisms associated with bluecomb (transmissible enteritis, coronaviral enteritis) susceptible to oxytetracycline.

Limitations: Prepare a fresh solution daily. Administer 7 to 14 days. Not to be used for more than 14 consecutive days. Use as sole source of drinking water. Do not use in birds producing eggs for human consumption.

NAS/NRC status: The conditions of use in this section are NAS/NRC reviewed and found effective. Applications for these uses need not include effectiveness data as specified in ? 514.111 of this chapter, but may require bioequivalency and safety information.

Beef cattle, dairy cattle, calves, swine, sheep, chickens, turkeys, finfish and lobster. Tolerances are established for the sum of residues of the tetracyclines including chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, and tetracycline, in tissues and milk as follows: a. 2 parts per million (ppm) in muscle b. 6 ppm in liver c. 12 ppm in fat and kidney d. 0.3 ppm in milk.