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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>357903</law_id><section_number>3.2-4900</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="5" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="4" identifier="III">Production and Sale of Agricultural Products</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="17" identifier="49">Animal Remedies</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Advertisement</span>&#x201D; means all representations, other than those on the <span class="dictionary">label</span>, disseminated in any manner or by any means, relating to <span class="dictionary">animal remedies</span>.</p><p>&#x201C;Animal&#x201D; means any animate being, which is not human, endowed with the power of voluntary action.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Animal remedies</span>&#x201D; means all <span class="dictionary">drugs</span>, combinations of <span class="dictionary">drugs</span>, proprietary medicines, and combinations of <span class="dictionary">drugs</span> and other ingredients, other than for food purposes or cosmetic purposes that are prepared or compounded for animal use; except those exempted by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Dosage form</span>&#x201D; means any animal remedy prepared in tablets, pills, capsules, ampules, or other units suitable for administration as an animal remedy.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Drug</span>&#x201D; means articles: (i) recognized in the latest addition or any supplement thereto of the Official United States Pharmacopoeia, the official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or the Official National Formulary; (ii) intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in <span class="dictionary">animals</span>; (iii) other than food or cosmetics, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of <span class="dictionary">animals</span>; or (iv) intended for use as a component of any articles specified in clauses (i) or (ii) of this definition.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Label</span>&#x201D; means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Labeling</span>&#x201D; means all <span class="dictionary">labels</span> and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying such article.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Medicated feed</span>&#x201D; means a product obtained by mixing a commercial feed and a <span class="dictionary">drug</span>.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Quantity statement</span>&#x201D; means the net weight (mass), net volume (liquid or dry), count or other form of measurement of a commodity.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Sell</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">sale</span>&#x201D; includes exchange.</p><p>&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Stop <span class="dictionary">sale</span>, use, removal, or seizure order</span>&#x201D; means an order that prohibits the distributor from selling, relocating, using, or disposing of an animal remedy in any manner, until the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> or an appropriate gives written permission to <span class="dictionary">sell</span>, relocate, use or dispose of the animal remedy.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 3-646.1; 1956, c. 517; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7; 3.1-829; 1994, c. 910; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
