subchapter_subject: "ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS"
part_code: "558"
part_subject: "NEW ANIMAL DRUGS FOR USE IN ANIMAL FEEDS"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Specific New Animal Drugs for Use in Animal Feeds"
section_number: "558.455"
section_subject: "Oxytetracycline and neomycin."
cfr_reference: "21 CFR 558.455"
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. Type A medicated articles containing oxytetracycline equivalent to 50 grams per pound (g/lb) oxytetracycline hydrochloride and 50 g/lb neomycin sulfate or oxytetracycline equivalent to 100 g/lb oxytetracycline hydrochloride and 100 g/lb neomycin sulfate.
(b)Sponsors. See Nos. 066104 and 069254 in § 510.600(c) of this chapter.
(c)Related tolerances. See §§ 556.430 and 556.500 of this chapter.
(d)Special considerations. (1) Federal law restricts medicated feed containing this veterinary feed directive (VFD) drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian. See § 558.6 for additional requirements.
(2)The expiration date of VFDs for oxytetracycline and neomycin medicated feeds must not exceed 6 months from the date of issuance. VFDs for oxytetracycline and neomycin shall not be refilled.
(3)Cattle feeds shall bear the following warning statement: “Use of more than one product containing neomycin or failure to follow withdrawal times may result in illegal drug residues.”
(e)Indications for use—(1) Chickens. It is used in feed as follows: