text: Veterinary Feed Directive ushers in new era of transparency | Bovine Vet Online
  By Doug Carder November 23, 2015 | 5:43 pm EST
  Since the Guidance 213 was put into effect in December 2013, all 26 companies representing the 283 affected labels came forward voluntarily to cooperate, Apley said.
  "[Guidance] 213 gets referenced a lot but that's a roadmap for getting 209 and the carrot for the companies was if you remove growth promotion uses from the label, add the requirement for veterinarian oversight for the ones affected by 209, then that's what will change," Apley said. "We're not going to go back in and look at the environmental safety technical section, we're not going to look at the microbial safety technical section within human food safety. We're just going to change those."
  "Just because I am licensed in Kansas does not mean I can write a VFD for pigs in Oklahoma or Missouri," he said.