[Title 21 CFR 558.128]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - April 1, 1996 Edition]
[Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS]
[Chapter I - FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES--(Continued)]
[Subchapter E - ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS]
[Part 558 - NEW ANIMAL DRUGS FOR USE IN ANIMAL FEEDS]
[Subpart B - Specific New Animal Drugs for Use in Animal Feeds]
[Sec. 558.128 - Chlortetracycline.]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




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  Chlortetracycline.
  558.128
  Sec. 558.128
  
    FOOD AND DRUGS
    FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES--(Continued)
    ANIMAL DRUGS, FEEDS, AND RELATED PRODUCTS
    NEW ANIMAL DRUGS FOR USE IN ANIMAL FEEDS
    Specific New Animal Drugs for Use in Animal Feeds
  


Sec. 558.128  Chlortetracycline.

    (a) Approvals. Type A medicated articles: 10 to 100 grams per pound 
chlortetracycline to 010042 in Sec. 510.600(c) of this chapter; 35 grams 
chlortetracycline with 7.7 percent (35

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grams) sulfamethazine to 010042 in Sec. 510.600(c) of this chapter.
    (b) Related tolerances. See Sec. 556.150 of this chapter.
    (c) Conditions of use. (1) It is used in the feed for cockatoos, 
macaws, and parrots as follows:
    (i) Amount. 10 milligrams per gram of finished feed.
    (ii) Indications for use. Treatment of psittacine birds (cockatoos, 
macaws, and parrots) suspected or known to be infected with psittacosis 
caused by Chlamydia psittaci sensitive to chlortetracycline.
    (iii) Limitations. Feed continuously for 45 days. As 
chlortetracycline calcium complex equivalent to chlortetracycline 
hydrochloride. Each bird should consume daily an amount of medicated 
feed equal to one fifth of its body weight. Warning: ``Psittacosis, 
avian chlamydiosis, or ornithosis is a reportable communicable disease, 
transmissible between wild and domestic birds, other animals, and man. 
Contact appropriate public health and regulatory officials.''
    (2) It is used in the feed for laboratory mice as follows:
    (i) Amount. Not less than 100 grams per ton of feed.
    (ii) Indications for use. As an aid in reducing the incidence of 
bacterial diarrhea.
    (3) It is used in feeds as follows:

                                             Table 1--In Type C Feed                                            
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 Chlortetracycline in grams     Combination in grams                                                            
           per ton                    per ton            Indications for use         Limitations        Sponsor 
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(i) 10 to 50................  .......................  1. Chickens and         As chlortetracycline             
                                                        turkeys; growth         hydrochloride.                  
                                                        promotion and feed                                      
                                                        efficiency.                                             
                                                       2. Swine; growth        ......do..............           
                                                        promotion and feed                                      
                                                        efficiency.                                             
(ii) 20 to 50...............  .......................  1. Lambs and growing    ......do..............           
                                                        sheep; growth                                           
                                                        promotion and feed                                      
                                                        efficiency.                                             
                                                       2. Mink; growth         ......do..............           
                                                        promotion and feed                                      
                                                        efficiency; as an aid                                   
                                                        in increasing pelt                                      
                                                        size.                                                   
(iii) 50 to 100.............  .......................  1. Chickens and         ......do..............           
                                                        turkeys; during times                                   
                                                        of stress, for                                          
                                                        prevention of                                           
                                                        diseases named in                                       
                                                        this section caused                                     
                                                        by organisms                                            
                                                        susceptible to the                                      
                                                        indicated levels of                                     
                                                        the cycline salt.                                       
                                                       2. For chickens;        ......do..............           
                                                        prevention of chronic                                   
                                                        respiratory disease                                     
                                                        (air-sac infection).                                    
                                                       3. For turkeys;         ......do..............           
                                                        prevention of                                           
                                                        infectious sinusitis,                                   
                                                        hexamitiasis.                                           
                                                       4. For laying           ......do..............           
                                                        chickens; maintaining                                   
                                                        or increasing egg                                       
                                                        production or                                           
                                                        hatchability of eggs.                                   
                                                       5. For chicks;          ......do..............           
                                                        prevention of early                                     
                                                        mortality due to                                        
                                                        organisms susceptible                                   
                                                        to chlortetracycline.                                   
                                                       6. Swine; maintenance   ......do..............           
                                                        of weight gain in the                                   
                                                        presence of atrophic                                    
                                                        rhinitis; reduction                                     
                                                        of the incidence of                                     
                                                        cervical abscesses;                                     
                                                        prevention of                                           
                                                        bacterial swine                                         
                                                        enteritis; prevention                                   
                                                        of bacterial swine                                      
                                                        enteritis during                                        
                                                        times of stress.                                        
(iv) 100 to 200.............  .......................  1. For chickens;        Not to be fed to                 
                                                        treatment of chronic    laying chickens; as             
                                                        respiratory disease     chlortetracycline               
                                                        (air-sac infection),    hydrochloride.                  
                                                        blue comb                                               
                                                        (nonspecific                                            
                                                        infectious                                              
                                                        enteritis);                                             
                                                        prevention of                                           
                                                        synovitis.                                              
                                                       2. For turkeys;         As chlortetracycline             
                                                        treatment of blue       hydrochloride.                  
                                                        comb (nonspecific                                       
                                                        infectious enteritis,                                   
                                                        mud fever),                                             
                                                        infectious sinusitis,                                   
                                                        hexamitiasis;                                           
                                                        prevention of                                           
                                                        synovitis.                                              

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                                                       3. For chickens;        Not to be fed to                 
                                                        treatment of chronic    laying chickens; as             
                                                        respiratory disease     chlortetracycline               
                                                        (air-sac infection),    hydrochloride as                
                                                        blue comb               follows: In low-                
                                                        (nonspecific            calcium feed                    
                                                        infectious              containing 0.8%                 
                                                        enteritis);             dietary calcium, not            
                                                        prevention of           to be fed                       
                                                        synovitis.              continuously for more           
                                                                                than 8 weeks; in low-           
                                                                                calcium feed                    
                                                                                containing 0.40% to             
                                                                                0.55% dietary                   
                                                                                calcium, not to be              
                                                                                fed continuously for            
                                                                                more than 5 d; in low-          
                                                                                calcium feed                    
                                                                                containing 0.8%                 
                                                                                dietary calcium and             
                                                                                1% to 1.5% sodium               
                                                                                sulfate, to be fed              
                                                                                continuously for not            
                                                                                more than the 1st 3             
                                                                                weeks of life.                  
                                                       4. Swine; treatment of  As chlortetracycline             
                                                        bacterial swine         hydrochloride.                  
                                                        enteritis.                                              
(v) 200.....................  .......................  1. For chickens;        Not to be fed to                 
                                                        prevention and          laying chickens; as             
                                                        control of              chlortetracycline               
                                                        coccidiosis caused by   hydrochloride in low-           
                                                        Eimeria necatrix and    calcium feed                    
                                                        E. tenella.             containing 0.8%                 
                                                                                dietary calcium, not            
                                                                                to be fed                       
                                                                                continuously for more           
                                                                                than 8 weeks; in low-           
                                                                                calcium feed                    
                                                                                containing 0.8%                 
                                                                                dietary calcium and             
                                                                                1.0% to 1.5% sodium             
                                                                                sulfate, to be fed              
                                                                                continuously for not            
                                                                                more than the first 3           
                                                                                weeks of life.                  
                                                       2. For chickens;        Not to be fed to                 
                                                        treatment of            laying chickens; as             
                                                        coccidiosis caused by   chlortetracycline               
                                                        Eimeria necatrix and    hydrochloride in low-           
                                                        E. tenella.             calcium feed                    
                                                                                containing 0.4% to              
                                                                                0.55% dietary                   
                                                                                calcium, not to be              
                                                                                fed continuously for            
                                                                                more than 5 d.                  
                                                       3. For chickens;        Not to be fed to                 
                                                        control of synovitis.   laying chickens; as             
                                                                                chlortetracycline               
                                                                                hydrochloride.                  
                                                       4. For turkeys;         As chlortetracycline             
                                                        control of synovitis.   hydrochloride.                  
                                                       5. For broiler          In low calcium feed              
                                                        chickens; treatment     containing 0.8%                 
                                                        of chronic              dietary calcium and             
                                                        respiratory disease     1.5% sodium sulfate;            
                                                        caused by strains of    feed continuously as            
                                                        Mycoplasma              sole ration for not             
                                                        gallisepticum           more than the 1st 3             
                                                        susceptible to          weeks of life.                  
                                                        chlortetracycline.                                      
                                                       6. Swine; as an aid in  Sole medication; as              
                                                        reducing spread of      chlortetracycline               
                                                        leptospirosis.          hydrochloride.                  
(vi) 200 to 400.............  .......................  For ducks; for the      Feed in complete                 
                                                        control and treatment   ration to provide               
                                                        of fowl cholera         from 8 to 28 mg per             
                                                        caused by Pasteurella   pound of body weight            
                                                        multocida susceptible   per day depending               
                                                        to chlortetracycline.   upon age and severity           
                                                                                of disease, for not             
                                                                                more than 21 d; as              
                                                                                the calcium complex             
                                                                                of chlortetracycline            
                                                                                equivalent to                   
                                                                                chlortetracycline               
                                                                                hydrochloride.                  
(vii) 400...................  .......................  1. For turkey poults    In low calcium feed              
                                                        not over 4 weeks of     containing 1% total             
                                                        age; aid in reducing    calcium with not less           
                                                        mortality due to        than 0.45% calcium              
                                                        paratyphoid caused by   from calcium sulfate;           
                                                        Salmonella              as chlortetracycline            
                                                        typhimurium.            hydrochloride.                  
                                                       2. Swine; as an aid in  To be fed for 14 d as            
                                                        reducing shedding of    sole medication; as             
                                                        leptospirae; as an      chlortetracycline               
                                                        aid in reducing the     hydrochloride.                  
                                                        abortion rate of                                        
                                                        swine and the                                           
                                                        mortality rate of                                       
                                                        newborn pigs when                                       
                                                        leptospirosis is                                        
                                                        present.                                                

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(viii) 500..................  .......................  For chickens; aid in    Not to be fed to                 
                                                        the reduction of        laying chickens; as             
                                                        mortality due to E.     chlortetracycline               
                                                        coli infections         hydrochloride; in               
                                                        susceptible to such     feed containing 0.8%            
                                                        treatment.              dietary calcium; not            
                                                                                to be fed                       
                                                                                continuously for more           
                                                                                than 5 d; withdraw 24           
                                                                                h prior to slaughter.           
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                                             Table 2--In Type B Feed                                            
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                                   Combination in                                                               
      Chlortetracycline       milligrams per head per    Indications for use         Limitations        Sponsor 
                                        day                                                                     
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milligrams per pound of body                                                                                    
       weight per day                                                                                           
                                                                                                                
(i) 0.1.....................  .......................  For calves up to 250    ......................           
                                                        lb in weight in milk                                    
                                                        replacers or starter                                    
                                                        feeds; growth                                           
                                                        promotion and feed                                      
                                                        efficiency.                                             
(ii) 0.5....................  .......................  1. For beef cattle      Not to be administered           
                                                        over 1,500 lb in        within 48 h of                  
                                                        weight; aid in          slaughter.                      
                                                        prevention of                                           
                                                        anaplasmosis.                                           
                                                       2. For calves up to     In milk replacers or             
                                                        250 lb in weight; aid   starter feeds.                  
                                                        in the prevention of                                    
                                                        bacterial diarrhea.                                     
(iii) 5.0...................  .......................  For beef cattle; aid    Feed for 60 days; for   .........
                                                        in the elimination of   use in the carrier              
                                                        the carrier state of    state only; not to be           
                                                        anaplasmosis.           fed within 10 d of              
                                                                                slaughter. Labeling             
                                                                                shall include a                 
                                                                                statement that a                
                                                                                positive complement-            
                                                                                flixation test at               
                                                                                conclusion of a 60-d            
                                                                                feeding period does             
                                                                                not necessarily                 
                                                                                establish that                  
                                                                                anaplasmosis carrier            
                                                                                state is still                  
                                                                                active. To positively           
                                                                                establish that the              
                                                                                carrier state has               
                                                                                been eliminated,                
                                                                                inject blood from a             
                                                                                suspected carrier               
                                                                                into a splenectomized           
                                                                                (susceptible) calf.             
                                                                                                                
 milligrams per head per day                                                                                    
                                                                                                                
(iv) 25 to 70...............  .......................  For calves in finished  ......................           
                                                        feed; growth                                            
                                                        promotion and feed                                      
                                                        efficiency.                                             
(v) 70......................  .......................  1. For feedlot cattle;  ......................           
                                                        aid in prevention of                                    
                                                        liver abscesses.                                        
                                                       2. For beef cattle up   ......................           
                                                        to 700 lb in weight;                                    
                                                        aid in reduction of                                     
                                                        bacterial diarrhea;                                     
                                                        aid in prevention of                                    
                                                        foot rot.                                               
                                                       3. For growing cattle   ......................           
                                                        in finished feed;                                       
                                                        growth promotion and                                    
                                                        feed efficiency.                                        
(vi) 85.....................  .......................  For horses up to 1 yr   Do not slaughter for             
                                                        of age; growth          food purposes.                  
                                                        promotion and feed                                      
                                                        efficiency.                                             
(vii) 100...................  .......................  For beef cattle over    ......................           
                                                        700 lb in weight; aid                                   
                                                        in reduction of                                         
                                                        bacterial diarrhea;                                     
                                                        aid in prevention of                                    
                                                        foot rot.                                               

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(viii) 350..................  .......................  1. For beef cattle;     Not to be administered           
                                                        aid in prevention of    within 48 h of                  
                                                        bacterial pneumonia     slaughter.                      
                                                        and shipping fever                                      
                                                        (hemorrhagic                                            
                                                        septicemia); aid in                                     
                                                        reduction of losses                                     
                                                        due to respiratory                                      
                                                        infection (infectious                                   
                                                        rhinotracheitis,                                        
                                                        shipping fever                                          
                                                        complex).                                               
                                                       2. For beef cattle up   Not to be administered           
                                                        to 700 lb in weight;    within 48 h of                  
                                                        aid in prevention of    slaughter.                      
                                                        anaplasmosis.                                           
                              Sulfamethazine 350.....  For beef cattle; aid    Feed for 28 d;                   
                                                        in the maintenance of   withdraw 7 d prior to           
                                                        weight gains in the     slaughter.                      
                                                        presence of                                             
                                                        respiratory disease                                     
                                                        such as shipping                                        
                                                        fever.                                                  
(ix) 500....................  .......................  For beef cattle 700 to  Not to be administered  .........
                                                        1,000 lb in weight;     within 48 h of                  
                                                        aid in prevention of    slaughter.                      
                                                        anaplasmosis.                                           
(x) 750.....................  .......................  For beef cattle 1,000   ......do..............  .........
                                                        to 1,500 lb in                                          
                                                        weight; aid in                                          
                                                        prevention of                                           
                                                        anaplasmosis.                                           
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    (4) It is used in free-choice cattle feeds such as feed blocks or 
salt-mineral mixes manufactured from approve Type A articles; such feeds 
are given to beef cattle and nonlactating dairy cattle to provide a 
daily minimum intake of 0.5 milligram of chlortetracycline per pound of 
body weight to aid in the prevention of anaplasmosis; the use of these 
Type A articles to make specific free-choice feed formulations must be 
approved under section 512(b) of the act and be based on a demonstration 
of drug stability and consumption which is consistent with the effective 
dose; the specific free-choice feed formulations approved in this 
paragraph can be manufactured under section 512(m) of the act.
    (5) Chlortetracycline may be used in accordance with the provisions 
of this section in the combinations provided as follows:
    (i) Amprolium in accordance with Sec. 558.55.
    (ii) Amprolium plus ethopabate in accordance with Sec. 558.58.
    (iii) [Reserved].
    (iv) Clopidol in accordance with Sec. 558.175.
    (v) Decoquinate in accordance with Sec. 558.195.
    (vi) Hygromycin B in accordance with Sec. 558.274.
    (vii) Monensin in accordance with Sec. 558.355.
    (viii) Roxarsone and salinomycin in accordance with Sec. 558.550.
    (ix) Robenidine hydrochloride in accordance with Sec. 558.515.
    (x) Roxarsone in accordance with Sec. 558.530.
    (xi) Salinomycin in accordance with Sec. 558.550.
    (xii) Zoalene in accordance with Sec. 558.680.

[41 FR 10995, Mar. 15, 1976, as amended at 42 FR 18617, Apr. 8, 1977; 42 
FR 36995, July 19, 1977; 47 FR 9399, Mar. 5, 1982; 47 FR 51563, Nov. 16, 
1982; 48 FR 11429, Mar. 18, 1983; 51 FR 7396, Mar. 3, 1986; 52 FR 2684, 
Jan. 26, 1987; 53 FR 31316, Aug. 18, 1988; 54 FR 24901, June 12, 1989; 
54 FR 25115, June 13, 1989; 54 FR 26732, June 26, 1989; 59 FR 8134, Feb. 
18, 1994; 60 FR 39847, Aug. 4, 1995]