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Basics Flashcards

1
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What is a Schedule 1 poison?

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Not currently in use

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What is a Schedule 2 poison?

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Pharmacy medicine

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What is a Schedule 3 poison?

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Pharmacist only medicine

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What is a Schedule 4 poison?

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Prescription only medicine OR Prescription animal remedy

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5
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What is a Schedule 5 poison?

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Caution

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What is a Schedule 6 poison?

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Poison

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7
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What is a Schedule 7 poison?

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Dangerous poison

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What is a Schedule 8 poison?

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Controlled drug

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9
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What is a Schedule 9 poison?

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Prohibited substance

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10
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What is an important consideration in food-producing species

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Withholding period

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11
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What are the five features of inflammation

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Heat

Redness

Swelling

Pain

Loss of function

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12
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What are the biochemical mediators of inflammation

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Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes

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13
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What are drug residues?

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The presence of drug or chemical agents in animal products that may have the potential to impact a human consumer

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What types of drugs can produce residues?

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Therapeutic drugs (e.g. antibiotics, anthelmintics)

Growth promotants (e.g. antibiotics, steroids)

Hormones

Insectides, acaricides, anthelmintics

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What are the potential adverse effects of drug residues?

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Consumers: e.g. allergy, carcinogenesis, teratogenicity

Economics: export products; antibiotics in cheese production

Environment: contamination of water supplies

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16
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What is the no observable effect level (NOEL)?

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Derived from animal studies (usually rats/mice): a leve of a given drug that produces no effect on test animals

17
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What is an acceptable daily intake (ADI)?

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A level obtained from the NOEL and adjusted by a safety factor, that represents a “safe” daily level of exposure to a drug in humans/consumers; If a consumer ate the product every day for their entire life, they would not be adversely affected.

18
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What is the withholding period (WHP)?

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The time it will take for tissue levels of a drug to fall so that it does not exceed the acceptable daily intake (ADI)

19
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What is the maximum residue limit?

A

The legally allowed level of a drug in the product (no correlation with toxic effects); for each edible tissue

20
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What is the export slaughter interval?

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The recommended time between drug treatment and slaughter issued by Meat and Livestock Australia

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