Business · 03/03/2004

FDA Approves Penicillin G for Turkeys to Treat Erysipelosis

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has amended animal drug regulations to allow the use of penicillin G in turkeys' drinking water to combat erysipelas, a bacterial infection caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, following approval of an abbreviated new animal drug application (ANADA) by Vetoquinol N.-A., Inc.