FOOD ANIMAL RESIDUE AVOIDANCE DEPLETION PROGRAM (FARAD, aka historically Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank, 7 USC 7642)

The 2018-2019 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, the species pages will also be made available in Spanish, the conversion of the KinEntry portion of the database to an SQL format will be completed, a new portal system for veterinarians to look up their submissions of and current and historical answers will be developed, and an interface for extracting pharmacokinetic parameters from studies where physiologically based or population based models have been fit to data . We will also assist KSU with the development of an interface for the physiological based pharmacokinetic models (with the help of a post-doctoral fellow at UC Davis) and 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 new responder at Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine to get that individual trained on answering calls. This will help with uniformity of answers from the three different call centers. Lastly, we will develop an on-line portal system that will allow veterinarians to log into a secure portal where they can follow inquiry submissions and review historical FARAD answers to their submissions. Given that Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine will be a new responding center, UC Davis will also play a key role in training the new responder.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 designing and conducting a survey (Dr. Evan Adler and Masters Graduate students, Myrna Cadena and Rachel Dutch) to understand how drugs are being used in an extra-label manner. In addition, we plan to develop (in both English and Spanish) an educational video that will allow both owners and small animal veterinarians understand the issues related to drug use in backyard poultry and how to avoid residues that could pose risks to human health.