Clarifying the recission of the FDA VCPR waiver

The Veterinary Virtual Care Association explains how the FDA’s rescission of the Covid-era waiver to agency regulations concerning the VCPR may affect practices and their clients.

Source: VVCA, December 28, 2022. Link.

1. This is not a new FDA policy, but simply a federal agency rescission of the COVID-era waiver pertaining to a regulation instituted decades ago.
2. The FDA regulation (not federal law) applies only to 2 circumstances for
   veterinary medicine:
   (1) veterinary feed directives, and
   (2) prescriptions of extra-label drugs.
   (3) Nothing else.
3. The FDA regulation is not a prohibition of any other aspect of veterinary medicine or a telemedicine VCPR in those states permitting such a VCPR.
4. FDA does not require a VCPR for prescription, administration or dispensing of drugs that are not off-label. State regulations govern these prescriptions, and practitioners should check their practice acts/regulations in any state where they practice.