§ 3.1-829. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Definitions
As used in this chapter the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
"Advertisement" means all representations, other than those on the label, disseminated in any manner or by any means, relating to animal remedies.
"Animal" means any animate being, which is not human, endowed with the power of voluntary action.
"Animal remedies" means all drugs, combinations of drugs, proprietary medicines, and combinations of drugs and other ingredients, other than for food purposes or cosmetic purposes, which are prepared or compounded for animal use; except those exempted by the Commissioner.
"Board" means the Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
"Commissioner" means Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
"Department" means the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
"Dosage form" means any animal remedy prepared in tablets, pills, capsules, ampules, or other units suitable for administration as an animal remedy.
"Drug" means (i) articles recognized in the latest addition or any supplement thereto of the Official United States Pharmacopoeia, the official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or the Official National Formulary, (ii) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in animals, (iii) articles, other than food or cosmetics, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of animals, or (iv) articles intended for use as a component of any articles specified in clauses (i) or (ii) of this definition.
"Label" means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article; and a requirement made under authority of this chapter that any word, statement, or other information appearing on the label is not complied with unless such word, statement or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper of the retail package of such article, or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper.
"Labeling" means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter (i) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers or (ii) accompanying such article at any time.
"Medicated feed" means a product obtained by mixing a commercial feed and a drug.
"Quantity statement" means the net weight (mass), net volume (liquid or dry), count or other form of measurement of a commodity.
"Sell" or "sale" includes exchange.
"Stop sale, use, removal, or seizure order" means an order which prohibits the distributor from selling, relocating, using, or disposing of an animal remedy in any manner, until the Commissioner, or his agent, or the court gives written permission to sell, relocate, use or dispose of the animal remedy.
(Code 1950, § 3-646.1; 1956, c. 517; 1966, c. 702; 1994, c. 910.)
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