Clients may have misconceptions about the safety and efficacy of nutraceuticals.
At the Fetch dvm360® conference in Charlotte, Dawn Boothe, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVIM, DACVCP, shared key information veterinary professionals should share with their clients about nutraceuticals.
View the video below for the entire discussion. The following is a partial transcript.
Dawn Boothe, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVIM, DACVCP: Many of our clients just don't understand that they're not drugs. They're not regulated. They don't go through a pre market assessment. They don't go through a good, "is it safe [and] does it work" [test]. You know, you can go get some grass and some dirt and mix it up in your bathtub and put it in a bottle, put a pretty label on it, and you can sell it, and there's really nobody to hold you accountable.
