2015 Wyoming Code
TITLE 11 - AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND OTHER ANIMALS
CHAPTER 17 - LIVESTOCK REMEDIES
ARTICLE 2 - ANIMAL REMEDIES
SECTION 11-17-202. - Definitions; exemptions.

11-17-202. Definitions; exemptions.

(a) As used in this article:

(i) "Advertisement" means any representation, other than on the label, disseminated in any manner or by any means, relating to animal remedies as defined in this article;

(ii) "Animal" means any animate being, which is not human, endowed with the power of voluntary action;

(iii) "Animal remedy" means any drug, combination of drugs, proprietary medicine, biological product and combinations of drugs and other ingredients, other than for food or cosmetic purposes, which is prepared or compounded for animal use, except as exempted by the director;

(iv) "Antimicrobial resistance" means the result of microbes changing in ways that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of drugs, chemicals or other agents intended to cure or prevent infections;

(v) "Brand name" means any word, name, symbol or device, or any combination thereof, identifying the animal remedy of a distributor or registrant and distinguishing it from that of others;

(vi) "Department" means the Wyoming department of agriculture;

(vii) "Director" means the director of the Wyoming department of agriculture;

(viii) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, exchange or barter any animal remedy;

(ix) "Distributor" means any person who distributes animal remedies;

(x) "Dosage form" means an animal remedy prepared in tablets, pills, capsules, ampules, boluses or other units suitable for administration as an animal remedy;

(xi) "Drug" means an animal remedy:

(A) Recognized in the official United States pharmacopoeia, the official United States homeopathic pharmacopoeia, the official national formulary, or any supplement to any of these publications;

(B) Recognized by the United States food and drug administration;

(C) Intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in animals;

(D) Prepared for external or internal use in the mitigation of parasites in or on animals;

(E) Intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of animals;

(F) Intended for use as a component of any combined animal remedy specified in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of this paragraph.

(xii) "Drug" does not include a device or its components, parts or accessories;

(xiii) "Label" means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or affixed to the immediate container of any animal remedy;

(xiv) "Labeling" means any label and other written, printed or graphic matter upon an animal remedy and any of its containers or wrappers accompanying the animal remedy. "Labeling" also includes any advertisement or brochure promoting the animal remedy including but not limited to television, internet, other electronic medium or pamphlets;

(xv) "Medicated feed" means commercial or custom feed which contains drug ingredients intended for the cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of diseases of animals or which contains drug ingredients intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of animals;

(xvi) "Official sample" means any sample of an animal remedy taken by and designated as official by the director or his agent;

(xvii) "Product name" means the name of the animal remedy which identifies it as to kind, class or specific use;

(xviii) "Registrant" means the person who registers animal remedies under the provisions of this article. The registrant may also be the distributor;

(xix) "This act" means W.S. 11-17-201 through 11-17-209.

(b) Nothing in this article shall apply to:

(i) A medicated feed;

(ii) A product registered with the department and recognized as a pesticide;

(iii) Any animal remedy intended solely for investigational, experimental or laboratory use by qualified persons, provided the animal remedy is plainly labeled "for investigational use only";

(iv) Any person licensed to practice veterinary medicine in Wyoming, when acting within the scope of that license.