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Guide to FARAD Resources: Historical and Future Perspectives

The FARAD manages the Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank and has been serving the veterinary profession for 35 years. It is funded and sponsored by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and is overseen and operated by faculty and staff within the colleges of veterinary medicine at the University of California-Davis, University of Florida, Kansas State University, and North Carolina State University. The overarching goal of FARAD is to provide veterinary practitioners the most current and accurate information to facilitate the production of safe foods of animal origin through the prevention and mitigation of violative chemical (eg, drugs, pesticides, natural toxins, and environmental contaminants) residues in food animal products. The program has dramatically evolved since its inception in terms of data resources, outreach, quantitative tools used to estimate WDIs, precision of estimates, and methods implemented to disseminate information. With veterinarian inquiries increasing by double digits over the last several years, it is prudent to provide an overview of what FARAD can and cannot do and what it could do in the future. [e-Letter Editor's Note: This is an excellent article on FARAD capabilities and background. You will need to be an AVMA member or pay to view the entire article.]

Jim E. Riviere DVM, PhD Lisa A. Tell DVM Ronald E. Baynes DVM, PhD Thomas W. Vickroy PhD Ronette Gehring BVSc, MMedVet; Guide to FARAD Resources: Historical and Future Perspectives; Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association; May 15, 2017, Vol. 250, No. 10, Pages 1131-1139 doi: 10.2460/javma.250.10.1131