Delivering drugs to farmed animals using controlled release science and technology

ABSTRACT

This article presents an overview of long acting products used in animal health, production and reproduction. The topic represents a niche field of controlled release that few formulation scientists become specialists and experts in, but it is a field which has made significant contribution to the area of controlled release technology, and one which is of major importance to human kind due to their dependence on farmed animals as a source of hide, protein, milk and eggs.