Feed, supplement or drug
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The familiar line
A product intended to provide nutrition is food. A product intended to treat, prevent or mitigate disease, or to affect the structure or function of the body, is a drug. Animals do not change that logic.
Where it bites in this category
Supplements. A mineral block is feed. The same block sold as preventing a deficiency disease is making a drug claim, and the line is in the sentence rather than in the mineral.
And it bites hardest in apiary
Treatments for colony pests and diseases are the products a beekeeper most wants, and several of them are veterinary drugs requiring a veterinary feed directive or a prescription. Feeding sugar is food; treating a colony is not.
Which is why this property covers feed and not treatment
Bee feed is in scope. Varroa treatment is not, because it is a different regulatory regime with a veterinarian in it, and pretending otherwise would be the kind of blurring this library tries to avoid.
Medicated feed is its own regime again
A feed containing an approved animal drug is a medicated feed with its own manufacturing and labeling requirements. Adding something active to a supplement is not a formulation tweak.
Topicals sit closer to the line than they look
An animal health topical is in this property because of its container, a small bottle dosed by drop. Whether a given topical is a cosmetic-like grooming product, a pesticide or a veterinary drug depends entirely on what it claims to do.
Decide it in writing, early
With the date and the reasoning. A reformulation or a new claim reopens it, and a decision nobody wrote down gets quietly reversed by whoever writes the next product page.