Three years ago, along with the National Aquaculture Association (NAA), I began an effort to advocate that the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) change their policy for determining what was eligible for drug indexing. We pointed out that the policy was overly restrictive and had led to only two drugs being indexed for fish since the Minor Use and Minor Species Animal Health Act (MUMS) was passed in 2004. MUMS allows indexing for non-food animals or early life stagesof food producing species, although CVM’s previous policy was that, if any animal within a species was raised for food, that entire species was not eligible. In an article published in the September 2019 issue of World Aquaculture, we explained how there are many instances where there are members of a species that are used for food, but the animal in question is not. Broodstock fish was the main example we used.
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