Introduction
Company name: Fort Dodge Animal Health
Address: Flanders Road
Hedge End
Southampton SO30 4QH
Telephone: 01489 781711
Fax: 01489 788306
Equitape™
Introduction
Company name: Fort Dodge Animal Health
Address: Flanders Road
Hedge End
Southampton SO30 4QH
Telephone: 01489 781711
Fax: 01489 788306
Presentation
A white paste containing: 90.0mg/g praziquantel Ph.Eur as active substance and 0.2mg/g propyl parahydroxybenzoate (E216) and 1.4mg/g methyl parahydroxybenzoate (E218) as preservatives.
Uses
Praziquantel is a pyrazino-isoquinoline derivative. For the single dose treatment of infections with cestodes (tapeworms) of the species Anoplocephala perfoliata sensitive to praziquantel.
Dosage and administration
For oral administration. One 6.67g syringe contains sufficient paste to treat one 600kg horse at the recommended dose rate (1mg praziquantel per kg bodyweight). Each graduation on the calibrated syringe delivers sufficient paste to treat 50kg bodyweight. Use of a scale or weigh tape is recommended to ensure accurate dosing.
Contra-indications, warnings, etc
Do not use in horses producing milk for human consumption.
Withdrawal period for edible tissue: zero days
The safety of EQUITAPE has not been studied following administration to mares during gestation and lactation, and as such should only be used in mares during pregnancy and lactation after assessment of the benefit/risk balance by your veterinary surgeon.
Wash hands thoroughly after treating animals.
Do not eat, drink or smoke during application.
Any spillage of the product onto human skin should be removed by washing with soap and water.
Read entire package insert before use.
For animal treatment only.
Keep out of reach of children.
Environmental Safety
In order to limit pasture excretion of the product and its metabolites, horses should remain stabled for 2 days after treatment. Unused product or waste material must be disposed of in accordance with national waste disposal requirements.
Pharmaceutical precautions
No special precautions for storage.
Legal category
POM-VPS
Packaging Quantities
High density polyethylene syringe with cap made of high density polyethylene and plastic plunger made of polystyrol with locking ring, containing 6.67g of paste.
Further information
As tapeworm infection is unlikely to occur in horses before two months of age, treatment of foals below this age is not considered necessary.
In horses with severe infections, treatment may result in mild, transient colic and loose faeces due to the destruction of the tapeworms.
Parasite resistance to a particular class of anthelmintic may develop following frequent, repeated use of an anthelmintic of that class.
In the absence of compatibility studies this veterinary product must not be mixed with other medicinal products.
Marketing Authorisation Holders: Bayer plc, Animal Health. Division, Bayer House, Strawberry Hill, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1JA
Distributed in UK by: Fort Dodge Animal Health Ltd, Flanders Road, Southampton, SO30 4QH
Marketing authorisation number
Vm. 00010/4118.