Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc (IPIX)

[warrenthomas4001]

Good question. Veterinarians use drugs that are FDA approved for animal use and they can and do also use drugs approved for human use. The protocol is, first use the Standard of Care, aka, drugs approved for your specific species. If standard of care drugs have been exhausted, you may then exercise extra-label use of drugs FDA approved for human use. For some species, such as tortoise, there are no FDA approved drugs, and so the only option is extra-label. FDA and USDA strictly govern use of drugs in food animals, such as poultry, cattle, etc. In deciding how to dose a non-human species with Brilacidin, the DVM would essentially be experimenting based on whatever, animal data is published, if any. Though perfectly legal, there would be a certain veterinary liability when using a human drug off label for an animal.