SUPPLY
NEWS
United Ag General Store in
El Campo now has its wholesale
drug license
T
By Michelle Frankum
he animal health industry
has made a lot of changes
in the past five years. Most
of these changes include
mergers and acquisitions
by human pharmaceutical or large
animal health companies, but we are
starting to see a government impact
on the industry. At United Ag, we
strive to stay up to date with these
changes so that we can provide superior cattle products and competitive
pricing. In the past year we have
been advised that the FDA will be
making changes to our purchasing
power on antibiotics and other regulated items. We do not expect the
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new regulations to occur until 2016,
but we would rather be prepared and
sitting in a good position to help our
customers. What does this mean to
you? Any day of the week you could
walk into one of our four United Ag
General Store locations and purchase LA-200, Noromycin 300, or
Bio-mycin. Under new regulations,
these products would only be available for purchase through a veterinary clinic.
As of January 2015, United Ag
acquired our Wholesale Drug License
from the Texas Department of State
Health Services. This license allows
us to purchase animal health products including LongRange, Multimin,
and X[