• What is a biologic?

    According to the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Title 9, a biological product means all viruses, serums, toxins (excluding substances that are selectively toxic to microorganisms, e.g., antibiotics), or analogous products at any stage of production, shipment, distribution, or sale, which are intended for use in the treatment of animals and which act primarily through the direct stimulation, supplementation, enhancement, or modulation of the immune system or immune response. Treatment means the prevention, diagnosis, management, or cure of diseases of animals. A veterinary biological product includes vaccines, bacterins, allergens, antibodies, antitoxins (includes antivenom), toxoids, immunostimulants, certain cytokines, antigenic or immunizing components of live organisms, and diagnostic components that are of natural or synthetic origin, or that are derived from synthesizing or altering various substances or components of substances such as microorganisms, genes or genetic sequences, carbohydrates, proteins, antigens, allergens, or antibodies.