subchapter_subject: "ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS"
part_code: "520"
part_subject: "ORAL DOSAGE FORM NEW ANIMAL DRUGS"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Specific Administrative Rulings and Decisions"
section_number: "520.903e"
section_subject: "Febantel tablets."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 520.903e"
title_name: "Title 21"
title_subject: "Food and Drugs"
parts_covered: "Parts 500 to 599"
revised_date: "Revised as of April 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of April 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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(a)Specifications. Each scored tablet contains 27.2 milligrams of febantel for use in dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens or 163.3 milligrams of febantel for use in dogs, puppies, and cats.
(b)Sponsor. See No. 000859 in § 510.600(c) of this chapter.
(c)Conditions of use—(1) Amount—(i) Dogs and cats. Ten milligrams per kilogram body weight. Administer once daily for 3 consecutive days.
(ii)Puppies and kittens fewer than 6 months of age. Fifteen milligrams per kilogram body weight. Administer once daily for 3 consecutive days.
(2)Indications for use. (i) For removal of hookworms (Ancylostoma caninum and Uncinaria stenocephala), ascarids (Toxocara canis and Toxascaris leonina) and whipworms (Trichuris vulpis) in dogs and puppies.
(ii)For removal of hookworms (Ancylostoma tubaeforme) and ascarids (Toxocara cati) in cats and kittens.
(3)Limitations. Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian.