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Who can write a medicine prescription (receipt) for fish in your country?
Hi Everybody,
In Turkey, we have such a problem about to write medicine prescription (antibiotics etc)! Who should write it officialy? Aquaculture Engineers or Vetenerians???
BSc education of aquaculture engineering is 4 years in Turkey and all students take fish health and diseases (bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases) , fish biology, fish anatomy and physiology, microbiology, feeding, and rearing techniques courses but not fish patology courses . On the other hand, vetenerians takes only limited fish health course but they take general patology course (for sheeps, cows etc) and nothing else about aquaculture ...
Government gives the rigth only to vetenerians to write fish medicine prescription (because they have Dr title and they take patology course)!
Ofcourse now, the faculties start to add Fish patology course in their education system but there is still some problem because Vetenerians are very powerful than Aquaculture Engineer (you now politics and bureaucracy)..
Now our Aquaculture Engineer Society will apply to Ministry of Agriculture to change that regulation to earn that rigth! What about your country? Could you please write me the situation in your country?
Thanks in advance
Turker Bodur (PhD Student)
Antalya- Turkey
PS: There are 13 Fisheries Faculty in Turkey and every year more than 300 Aquaculture Engineers graduate from that faculties :)
In Turkey, we have such a problem about to write medicine prescription (antibiotics etc)! Who should write it officialy? Aquaculture Engineers or Vetenerians???
BSc education of aquaculture engineering is 4 years in Turkey and all students take fish health and diseases (bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases) , fish biology, fish anatomy and physiology, microbiology, feeding, and rearing techniques courses but not fish patology courses . On the other hand, vetenerians takes only limited fish health course but they take general patology course (for sheeps, cows etc) and nothing else about aquaculture ...
Government gives the rigth only to vetenerians to write fish medicine prescription (because they have Dr title and they take patology course)!
Ofcourse now, the faculties start to add Fish patology course in their education system but there is still some problem because Vetenerians are very powerful than Aquaculture Engineer (you now politics and bureaucracy)..
Now our Aquaculture Engineer Society will apply to Ministry of Agriculture to change that regulation to earn that rigth! What about your country? Could you please write me the situation in your country?
Thanks in advance
Turker Bodur (PhD Student)
Antalya- Turkey
PS: There are 13 Fisheries Faculty in Turkey and every year more than 300 Aquaculture Engineers graduate from that faculties :)
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Permalink Reply by Dave Takaki on -
Aloha Türker,
In the US the use of prescription medications in aquaculture is regulated by our Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Regulations and regulation enforcement used to be lax, but in recent years enforcement of regulations has become more rigorous. Some medications have been removed from approval lists.
On the other hand, some medications such as Oxytetracycline are not as strictly regulated. The key approach in the US is that the FDA would prefer to see a working relationship between the veterinarian and the aquaculture operation. The intent is to see more thoughtful, directed application of regulated medications. Also, when a veterinarian is seen as having a close working relationship, off label (experimental) use of a medication is more likely to be accepted by the FDA.
A real concern in the US in recent years is the creation of resistant strains in both farm and wild fish populations as well as discharge of persistent medical compounds into non-farm waters. A related issue is how the FDA can screen fish product coming into the US that is not in compliance with approved drugs and chemicals.
I’ve attached four documents to give you an overview of what it is like in the US:
• Legal and Judicious Use of Drugs and Therapeutants in Aquaculture
• Guide to Drug, Vaccine, and Pesticide use in Aquaculture
http://aquanic.org/publicat/govagen/usda/gdvp.htm
• Antibiotic Drug Use in U.S. Aquaculture
• Approved Drugs for Use in Aquaculture - Attachments:
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Permalink Reply by Georgi Atanassov on -
Hi Türker,
It's like listening to the situation in Bulgaria. Just the way it is and with us.
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