BESTMIX® labelling and tagging tools have always helped our customers to generate legally compliant tags in a very efficient manner. Our customers implement and update international legislations and local rules without going into a manual and cumbersome tag creation process.
For Feed and Premix companies delivering products in the USA, the new VFD (Veterinary Feed Directive – See https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/ucm071807.htm on the FDA website for more information) is such a change in legislation, affecting the content of our customers’ labels and tags.

The main objectives of the VFD is to regulate antibiotic usage in food producing animals, increasing animal welfare and to stop bacterial resistance to these antibiotics. To the existing over the counter and prescription drug classifications, the VFD classification was added as a more practical alternative to prescription drugs for feed. A VFD is a written statement by a licensed veterinary and authorizes the usage of the particular VFD drug to a client.

Using BESTMIX® Labeling and Tagging tools, implementing these changes and rolling out the VFD rules on your tags are worry free. Using existing functionality in the software, it is just a matter of updating some classifications and adding extra rules to the compendium file and label templates.

For example, for VFD drugs and drug combinations:

BESTMIX users can choose to bulk update all active product tags in one go or start implementing the new layouts when revising new or existing feed products.  Either way, BESTMIX software is ready to comply with the new Veterinary Feed Directive.

Peter De Letter, Sector Specialist Ration Advice & Premix