Veterinary Nutraceuticals Flashcards
Nutraceutical
Oral compounds, neither drugs nor nutrients
Nutraceuticals are regulated by
FDA - only when a product becomes unsafe or is associated with a label that claims a drug use
Food
Article used for food or drink, provides taste, aroma or nutritive value. Primary role of nutrition is prevention of diseases.
Drug
Any substance, food or non-food used to treat, mitigate or prevent disease
Feed Additive
Product not considered GRAS - must undergo a pre-market approval process
Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDAC)
Created by FDA
Ensure safety of human drugs - defined foods, drugs and feed additives
Assures drug efficacy in mission of FDA, formation of the Center of Veterinary Medicine (CVM)
FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA)
Requires FDA to set ingredient definitions and processing standards for petfoods, modifying petfood labels and creating a food adulteration incident reporting system
FDA and AAFCO Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
FDA has assumed greater authority over the AAFCO feed ingredient definition process
AAFCO is developing regulations to institute good manufacturing practices for all animal feeds
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA)
Effectively restrict FDAs ability to regulate dietary supplements
Legally defines a dietary supplement
Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)
Non regulatory organization of federal and state feed officials
Voluntary guidelines and not all states abide by them
Sources of N-6 PUFA
Corn, Cottonseed, Peanut, Safflower, Sunflower, Olive, Soybean, and Canola Oils
Sources of N-3 PUFA
Fish Oil, Flaxseed Oil, Canola Oil, Soybean Oil
Adverse reactions to PUFA supplementation
Bleeding dyscrasias Lipid Peroxidation Immunosuppression Vitamin E Deficiency Competition with other PUFA
Glucosamine (GS)
Aminomonocaccharide made from glucose
Chondrotin Sulfate (CDS)
Mucopolysaccharide found in mammalian cartilage
