- Withdrawal time
Withdrawal time, as relating to Veterinary Medicine, is defined as the time required after administration of a drug to a dairy cow needed to assure that drug residues in the marketable milk is below a determined maximum residue limit (MRL). [ [http://vetext.unl.edu/stories/200705150.shtml FDA Reminds Veterinarians on the Correct Use of Flunixin Meglumine]
May 15 2007 FDA ,Center for Veterinary Medicine . Hosted atUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln . AccessedSeptember 26 2007 .] This term is often used more broadly to describe the time needed after drug administration to any food animal where drug residue may be found in marketed meats, eggs, organs, or other edible products. [For use with fish, see, for example, [http://aquanic.org/newsltrs/state/alabama/al1294.htm Drugs approved for use in Aquaculture] "Fish Stories" Vol. 1 No. 3. The Aquaculture Network Information Center.December 20 1994 . AccessedSeptember 26 2007 .]Notes
Further reading
*Concordet, D and P.L. Toutain (1997) "The withdrawal time estimation of veterinary drugs revisited" "Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics" 20 (5), 380–386. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2885.1997.00076.x
*Eiichi, Kokue. (2006) "On a new withdrawal time of veterinary drugs under Positive List System" "Journal of Livestock Medicine" 516, 363-365. Journal Code:X0028A. ISSN:0287-0754
*Fisch, R.D. (2000) "Withdrawal time estimation of veterinary drugs: extending the range of statistical methods" "Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics" 23 (3), 159–162. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2885.2000.00256.x
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