FARAD, aka Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank

The 2019-2020 FARAD project year will be focused on the essential call centers tasks including answering extra-label withdrawal requests, updating and expanding the resources available to call responders, maintaining the call center database and index page, extracting and cataloging pharmacokinetic data from published literature and updating and developing educational tools for veterinarians and the public posted on the FARAD web site. Specific to this year, topic pages will continue to expand, pages will also be made available in Spanish, bibkin finder, PBPK and antique sections will be converted to an SQL format. We will work with KSU on the development of laying hen PBPK models and with NCSU with the development of an interface for the non-linear mixed effect models that FARAD has developed for answering call based inquires. Other tasks will include working closely with the team at Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine regarding uniformity in answering calls at the three call centers. In addition to the call center activities, we will expand our efforts on educating small animal veterinarians regarding extra label drug use in backyard poultry, continue to assist veterinarians nationwide to understand the new veterinary feed directive rules, and provide California veterinarians with resources to confirm with the new Senate Bill 27. For backyard poultry, we will be summarizing the conducted survey to understand how drugs are being used in an extra-label manner.