                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MISBRANDED REMEDY (§ 3.2-4907)

An animal remedy is misbranded:

1. Unless the label bears, in the English language:
			a. The name and principal addresses of the manufacturer or person responsible
for placing such animal remedy on the market.			b. The name, brand, or trademark
under which the animal remedy is sold.			c. An accurate quantity statement of
the net contents of the package, lot, or parcel, such contents stated by weight
in the case of solids, by volume in the case of liquids, and by both count and
weight or volume per dose in the case of dosage forms.			d. The common or usual
name of each active ingredient; in the case of a drug or drugs intended to be
mixed with or in a feed for animals, and in the case of mixtures of a drug or
drugs with or in a feed for animals, the English name of each active ingredient
shall be stated and also the percentage of each active ingredient, or, in the
case of antibiotics, the number of grams of each such active ingredient present
in one pound of the product.			e. Adequate directions for use.			f. Adequate
warnings against use in those conditions, whether pathological or normal, where
its use may be dangerous to the health of animals, or against unsafe dosage,
methods or duration of methods, administration, or application, in such manner
and form, as are necessary for the protection of animals.

2. If the labeling is false or misleading in any particular.

3. If its container is made, formed, or filled so as to be deceptive or
misleading as to the amount of contents.

4. If it is dangerous to the health of animals when used in the dosage or with
the frequency or duration prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling
of such remedy.

5. If any word, statement, or other information appearing on the label does not
also appear on the outside container or wrapper, if present, of the retail
package of such article, or is not easily legible through the outside container
or wrapper.

6. If any word, statement, or other information required to appear on the label
is not prominently placed on the label with such conspicuousness, as compared
with other words, statements, designs, or devices in the labeling, and in such
terms, that it is likely to be read and understood by the ordinary individual
under customary conditions of purchase and use.
			Any animal remedy that is manufactured and distributed under license from and
under the supervision of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and in compliance
with the regulations of such department complies with this section.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 3-646.1, 3-646.3; 1956, c. 517; 1966, c. 702, §§
3.1-829, 3.1-832; 1994, c. 910; 2008, c. 860.