Utilizing Your Pharmaceutical Representative

The veterinary pharmaceutical industry has changed dramatically in the last 30 years. Like everything in the world, pharmaceut ical companies are getting bigger. Amalgamations, buyouts and takeovers have created a few very large companies, most with a vast array of products. The pharmaceutical representatives now represent a wider product line and as a result usually

More Questions For Reena – for Nov. 4, 2010

DearReena, Isthereanatural waytogetridofdandelions inmyyard nextseason? –Patricia Patricia, Pulling dandelions by hand is not that easy but it is worth the effort! The key is to get the whole taproot out. If you don’t, the piece you’ve left in the ground will sprout new foliage. Dandelions pop up either from a dandelion seed that germinates, or


Pmu Ranches May Be Cut To 25

Another round of cutbacks may see the number of equine ranches in Mani toba , Sa s k a t chewa n and North Dakota slashed to around 25, down from 64 last year. The decl ine in the local industry that produces pregnant mares’ urine for use by drug manufactur ing giant Wyeth in

U. S. Eyes Regulatory Overhaul

Since 1987, the USDA has overseen genetically modified organisms through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. APHIS’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services (BRS) regulates GE organisms based on “plant pest risk.” USDA has said it wants to make changes that ensure safety while making the process more transparent to the public, and more efficient and easier


Needle-Free Injectors Available For Hog Producers

“It’s fast, quick, easy.” – ROBYN HARTE, MAFRI You no longer require a needle to vaccinate a pig. Manitoba hog producers can now get funding to subsidize the cost of buying needle-less injectors for use in their herds. The money is avai lable under a federal-provincial Growing Forward food safety program. An $800,000 fund will

Canada Needs Faster Access To New Pharmaceuticals

roy lewis dvm Why should Canada, a small market, ask for the same raw data when the same testing has been done elsewhere? Acommon question from livestock producers is, “Why is it taking so long for product X to come on the market? They are using it in the States. Why can’t we get it


Poultry Processing To Roll Into B. C. Interior

The federal government’s plan to diversify parts of B. C. where the mountain pine beetle has eaten into the forestry sector will include funds for a mobile poultry-processing unit. The federal Western Economic Diversification department will put up $220,000 through its two-year, $33 million Community Economic Diversification Initiative (CEDI), for the Cariboo-Central Interior Poultry Producers